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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 daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?
(a) Food.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Drink.
(d) Help.

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

3. What does Benson typically do with her groceries?
(a) Donates them to charity.
(b) Gives them away.
(c) Throws them away.
(d) Eats them down to the last carrot.

4. Where does the virus start, in "Inventory"?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Nevada.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) California.

5. Where do the narrator and her husband go after their wedding, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Europe.
(b) Asia.
(c) California.
(d) South America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bad do to the narrator of "Mothers" on the "last night of us" (61)?

2. What is the term for Abler and Henson?

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

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

5. Whose ghost haunts Benson?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the dominant investigation taking place in ‘"Especial Heinous"?

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

5. What is happening in the ending of "Mothers"?

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

7. What are Abler and Henson’s relationship with Stabler and Benson?

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

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

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

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