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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. Who warns the narrator of "Mothers" that Bad’s treatment of her is not normal?
(a) Bad.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A teacher.

2. 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 forgives her and withdraws.
(d) He makes her pay for keeping it to herself.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What can the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" not tell the reader, about the opening where her head was attached to her body?

5. What was Father Jones feeding the girl on the rooftop before she fell off?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Stabler and Benson notch their furniture?

3. How does Benson learn to protect herself from the girls with bells for eyes?

4. What is the noise Stabler and Benson hear throughout "Especial Heinous"?

5. Is the ending or "Inventory" a triumph or a defeat?

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

7. What is the importance of the ‘hook-handed hitch-hiker’ in "The Husband Stitch"?

8. How is Stabler’s life unlike the girls with bells with eyes?

9. What is the DA’s relationship with Benson?

10. What is Machado’s style like?

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