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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. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her consciousness before she started to remember things?
(a) All sound and serenity.
(b) All color and horror.
(c) All good tastes and plenty.
(d) All contact and bliss.

2. Who is Uncle E?
(a) Evan the intern.
(b) Stabler.
(c) Henson.
(d) Abler.

3. What can the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" not tell the reader, about the opening where her head was attached to her body?
(a) Whether or not it is fatal.
(b) Whether her head is still hers.
(c) Whether it is bloody or smooth.
(d) Whether it is repairable.

4. 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) Her own.
(d) A corpse’s.

5. What is the husband’s response when he unties the ribbon at the end of "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) He is horrified and instantaneously repentant.
(b) He is vengefully satisfied.
(c) He groans and says no.
(d) He is delighted like a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator of "Mothers" and Bad are in Georgia, what does Bad say about the ocean?

2. Who does Benson catch by Googling her OKCupid date?

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

4. When the narrator’s husband asks if the ribbon is secret, what does she tell him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Stabler do to complicate relations with his wife in "Especial Heinous"?

8. What is the effect of having unnamed narrators?

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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