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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Benson keep the girls-with-bells-for-eyes from her apartment?
(a) By lining the entrances with salt.
(b) By playing loud music to cover their bells.
(c) By casting a spell.
(d) By performing an exorcism.

3. 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 forehead.
(c) Around her wrist.
(d) Around her ankle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Benson protect herself against this ghost?

3. Where does the virus start, in "Inventory"?

4. What is the term for the episode that ends "Mothers"?

5. Where does the madman hide his bomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Benson’s relationship with produce?

2. How would you describe the relationship between the narrator and Bad in "Mothers"?

3. Why do Stabler and Benson notch their furniture?

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the sexual frankness in Her Body and Other Parties?

5. What special gift does Stabler possess, which travels from person to person like a virus?

6. What is the effect of having unnamed narrators?

7. What is the importance of the act of making lists, in "Inventory"?

8. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with the woman from the art class?

9. What does "the husband stitch" refer to?

10. What role do the interns play in Stabler and Benson’s drama?

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