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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How frequently does Benson buy groceries?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Once a month.
(c) Twice a month.
(d) Weekly.

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

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

4. Where does the girl with bells for eyes tell Benson to go?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) California.
(d) New Jersey.

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

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

7. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the third mistake a woman can make?
(a) Being right.
(b) Being seen.
(c) Being wanted.
(d) Being a stranger.

8. How long does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" labor for, with her child?
(a) 20 hours.
(b) Two days.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

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

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

11. How do Stabler and Benson record their successes?
(a) By nothing their furniture.
(b) By going for drinks.
(c) By notching their pistol grips.
(d) By donating to a charity.

12. When the narrator of "Mothers" takes the baby from Bad, what does she fail to hear?
(a) Bad’s retreating footsteps.
(b) The baby’s crying.
(c) Her own weeping.
(d) Bad’s abusive screaming.

13. Why does the narrator of "Mothers" say Bad left her?
(a) Because she didn’t have what Bad needed.
(b) Because she asked too much.
(c) Because Bad was broken.
(d) Because she was never around.

14. What does Stabler discover his wife had seen in her twenties?
(a) A UFO.
(b) A hook-handed hitch-hiker.
(c) A sasquatch.
(d) A river monster.

15. Who is Uncle E?
(a) Stabler.
(b) Abler.
(c) Henson.
(d) Evan the intern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Benson grabs the girl-with-bells-for-eyes’ bells?

2. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the first mistake a woman can make?

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

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

5. Who warns the narrator of "Mothers" that Bad’s treatment of her is not normal?

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