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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 it is repairable.
(b) Whether her head is still hers.
(c) Whether it is bloody or smooth.
(d) Whether or not it is fatal.

2. What does Benson think the two-beat drumming is?
(a) Her breathing.
(b) Her own heartbeat.
(c) The city breathing.
(d) Stabler’s heartbeat.

3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her lovemaking with her boyfriend?
(a) Screwing.
(b) Rutting.
(c) Making love.
(d) Soul-dancing.

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the boy she meets in the beginning of the story?
(a) Craggy.
(b) Fine.
(c) Aloof.
(d) High-maintenance.

5. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?
(a) The most forgettable story.
(b) The most disingenuous story.
(c) The most real story.
(d) The most common story.

6. How frequently does the narrator’s boyfriend come over to her house, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Two or three times a week.
(b) Every other month.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Once or twice a month.

7. What does the narrator say Benson’s fridge resembles after her grocery trip?
(a) The Garden of Eden.
(b) A plastic desert.
(c) A lush market.
(d) The rain forest.

8. What does the narrator compare the girls-with-bells-for-eyes to?
(a) Diego Rivera’s peasants.
(b) Dali’s melted clocks.
(c) Picasso’s portraits of women.
(d) Diane Arbus portraits.

9. In the "Bad blood" episode summary, what to Stabler and Benson say about the crime they solved?
(a) Solving it was murder.
(b) Solving it was worse than the crime itself.
(c) Solving it meant leaving it unresolved.
(d) Solving a crime means committing another crime.

10. How old is the narrator at the beginning of "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) 12.
(b) 17.
(c) 21.
(d) 42.

11. How does the narrator of "Mothers" describe Bad?
(a) Like the moon.
(b) Like an ocean that washes through every breakwater.
(c) Like dirt that has never known rain.
(d) Like a river that has been dammed.

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

13. What did Bad do to the narrator of "Mothers" on the "last night of us" (61)?
(a) Told her she had always loved her.
(b) Throw a glass of wine in her face.
(c) Threw her into a wall.
(d) Punched her in the face.

14. Whose ghost haunts Benson?
(a) A girl who was murdered and misburied.
(b) The girl who sleepwalked into the forest.
(c) The girl turned incorporeal.
(d) The girl who fell off the roof with Father Jones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is abducted by a demon?

2. Where do the narrator and her husband go after their wedding, in "The Husband Stitch"?

3. When the narrator of "Mothers" takes the baby from Bad, what does she fail to hear?

4. Who is Tristan, who appears in the final scene of "Mothers"?

5. What noise does Stabler hear, repeatedly, in "Especially Heinous"?

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