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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" do to keep her son from trying to touch the ribbon?
(a) Slap his hand away.
(b) Distract him by jingling keys.
(c) Let him hold it, warily.
(d) Shake a can of pennies.

3. What metaphor does Father Jones use to compare the girl who fell off the roof?
(a) She hit the ground like a sack of groceries.
(b) She fell like a hawk.
(c) She rose like a balloon.
(d) She floated like an angel for a second before she plunged.

4. When the narrator of "Mothers" and Bad are in Georgia, what does Bad say about the ocean?
(a) That it is a baby.
(b) That it is a lesbian.
(c) That it is a grandmother.
(d) That it is a mother.

5. What was Father Jones feeding the girl on the rooftop before she fell off?
(a) Brownies.
(b) Sandwiches.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Orange slices.

6. What is the narrator’s husband’s response, to her answer about whether the ribbon is secret?
(a) He makes her pay for keeping it to herself.
(b) He forgives her and withdraws.
(c) He falls asleep angry.
(d) He threatens to hold her and untie it by force.

7. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she told a story about at the supermarket, when she was young?
(a) Fingers in the chicken.
(b) Eyes in the grapes.
(c) Toes in the potatoes.
(d) Nails in the seafood.

8. Who does the DA dump Henson for?
(a) Benson.
(b) Lucy the intern.
(c) Stabler.
(d) Stabler’s wife.

9. Who is abducted by a demon?
(a) Stabler.
(b) Benson.
(c) Evan the intern.
(d) Stabler’s wife.

10. Where does the virus start, in "Inventory"?
(a) Nevada.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) California.
(d) Nebraska.

11. What noise does Stabler hear, repeatedly, in "Especially Heinous"?
(a) Saxophone music.
(b) Whistling.
(c) Accordion music.
(d) Two beats, a low drumming.

12. What is the term for Abler and Henson?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Twins.
(c) Doppelgangers.
(d) Shadows.

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

14. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the moral of the story about the girl who died when her wedding dress had been exposed to embalming fluid?
(a) Sacred things should not be touched.
(b) Some things should not be spoken.
(c) Being poor will kill you.
(d) Marriage is a sacrament.

15. What do the interns put in Stabler and Benson’s coffee?
(a) Sleeping drugs.
(b) Poison.
(c) Milk.
(d) Sugar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself after having sex for the first time?

2. Where does the girl with bells for eyes tell Benson to go?

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she knows as soon as she kisses the boy?

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels when the boy "breaks" her?

5. What does Benson think the two-beat drumming is?

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