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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 happens when Benson tries to push the girls with bells with eyes away from her?
(a) They enter into her body.
(b) Her hands go right through them.
(c) They hit the wall hard.
(d) They move too quickly to be pushed.

2. What happens when Benson grabs the girl-with-bells-for-eyes’ bells?
(a) Every light bulb in her apartment bursts.
(b) The apartment is filled with murdered girls’ voices.
(c) The girl flies out the window.
(d) The doors to her apartment burst open.

3. What lesson does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" learn after she gives birth?
(a) That she cannot satisfy her husband unless she is satisfy herself.
(b) That she cannot be satisfied unless her son feels satisfied.
(c) That she can satisfy her husband and nurse her son at the same time.
(d) That she can satisfy her husband without being satisfied herself.

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

5. What color is the narrator’s ribbon in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she told a story about at the supermarket, when she was young?

2. In the story of the old man and the old woman, in "The Husband Stitch," whose liver does the old woman eat?

3. What does the narrator of "Mothers" dream love might be able to do?

4. How does the narrator of "Mothers" describe Bad’s baby’s eyes?

5. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her consciousness before she started to remember things?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe the atmosphere Machado creates in "Especial Heinous"?

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

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

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

5. Throughout the story, the narrator provides instructions to the reader, about how to read the story aloud. What effect does this have?

6. What is Benson’s relationship with produce?

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

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

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

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

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