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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her husband caresses her ribbon?
(a) As if he were considering murdering her.
(b) As if he were drawing inspiration from it.
(c) As if he were solving a math problem.
(d) As if he were touching her sex.

2. What characteristic does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories have?
(a) They run together like raindrops in a pond.
(b) They drain each other like rivers taking water out of the hills.
(c) They run apart from each other like magnets pushing each other away.
(d) They absorb each other’s strengths like fire.

3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her consciousness before she started to remember things?
(a) All contact and bliss.
(b) All sound and serenity.
(c) All good tastes and plenty.
(d) All color and horror.

4. Where is the home the narrator dreams about, in ‘Mothers’?
(a) Maine.
(b) California.
(c) Indiana.
(d) Texas.

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she knows as soon as she kisses the boy?
(a) That she will regret knowing him.
(b) That he will kill her.
(c) That they will marry.
(d) That he will give her a daughter.

6. What does pregnancy do to the narrator and her husband’s desire for each other, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) It gives them more perversities to play out.
(b) It makes them cautious and delicate.
(c) It makes them more chaste and religious.
(d) It frightens them.

7. What is the term for the episode that ends "Mothers"?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Flash forward.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Reminiscence.

8. When the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" takes an art course, she meets another woman with a ribbon—where is it?
(a) Around her ring finger.
(b) Around her ankle.
(c) Around her wrist.
(d) Around her forehead.

9. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories can do to happiness?
(a) Awarding it to the right person.
(b) Manufacturing it out of nothing.
(c) Preventing it happening.
(d) Snuff it out.

10. What can the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" not tell the reader, about the opening where her head was attached to her body?
(a) Whether or not it is fatal.
(b) Whether it is bloody or smooth.
(c) Whether her head is still hers.
(d) Whether it is repairable.

11. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" dress her child as for Halloween?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A lumberjack.
(c) A husband.
(d) A professor.

12. How are Abler and Henson different from Stabler and Benson?
(a) Abler and Henson are criminals.
(b) Abler and Henson are not romantically involved.
(c) Abler and Henson are sleeping together.
(d) Abler and Henson are teachers.

13. What is the narrator inventorying in "Inventory"?
(a) Lovers.
(b) Orgasms.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Houses.

14. What does the daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?
(a) Food.
(b) Help.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Drink.

15. When the narrator’s husband asks if the ribbon is secret, what does she tell him?
(a) She says that he can untie it in time.
(b) She says that it is not secret, it is just hers.
(c) She says that it is a secret.
(d) She says that it is not hers to give him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator at the beginning of "The Husband Stitch"?

2. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?

3. How does the narrator of "Mothers" qualify her statement when she tells the baby she loves her?

4. What happens when Benson tries to push the girls with bells with eyes away from her?

5. What TV show is "Especially Heinous" a play on?

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