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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 Benson hear the girls-with-bells-for-eyes saying?
(a) Take us home.
(b) Give us voices.
(c) Murder our murderers.
(d) Let us rest.

2. What TV show is "Especially Heinous" a play on?
(a) Law and Order.
(b) Bones.
(c) That 70s Show.
(d) The Big Bang Theory.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the narrator say Benson feels when she lets the girls-with-bells-for-eyes back into her apartment?

3. What happens when Benson tries to push the girls with bells with eyes away from her?

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her lovemaking with her boyfriend?

5. What lesson does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" learn after she gives birth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the quality of love change over the course of "Inventory"?

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

3. What was Father Jones’ relationship with the girl who fell from the rooftop?

4. What do we know about the virus that is killing people off in "Inventory"?

5. Why do Stabler and Benson notch their furniture?

6. What kind of atmosphere does Machado create with her epigrams?

7. What is the significance of the narrator’s green ribbon, in "The Husband Stitch"?

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

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

10. What is the effect of having unnamed narrators?

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