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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story of the pioneer husband and wife, in "The Husband Stitch," what happens to the child?
(a) She becomes a wood nymph.
(b) She dies.
(c) She is rescued by gypsies.
(d) She turns feral.

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

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

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

5. What power does Stabler acquire from Father Jones?
(a) The power of seeing through things.
(b) The power of foresight.
(c) The power of forgetfulness.
(d) The power of mind-reading.

6. 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.

7. Where does the narrator of "Inventory" go in the end?
(a) Nantucket.
(b) An island off the coast of Maine.
(c) Canada.
(d) Iceland.

8. In the story of the old man and the old woman, in "The Husband Stitch," whose liver does the old woman eat?
(a) Her husband’s.
(b) A ghost’s.
(c) A corpse’s.
(d) Her own.

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

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

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

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

13. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" see outside the window of the car where she and her boyfriend have sex?
(a) A hook-handed man.
(b) A group of campers.
(c) An old crone.
(d) Artists drawing.

14. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the second mistake a woman can make?
(a) Coldness.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Passion.
(d) Pride.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does pregnancy do to the narrator and her husband’s desire for each other, in "The Husband Stitch"?

2. What is the narrator’s husband’s response, to her answer about whether the ribbon is secret?

3. What does the narrator compare the girls-with-bells-for-eyes to?

4. What does the narrator say Benson’s fridge resembles after her grocery trip?

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

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