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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 is the term for Abler and Henson?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) Twins.
(c) Shadows.
(d) Doppelgangers.
2. 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.
3. Who is abducted by a demon?
(a) Evan the intern.
(b) Benson.
(c) Stabler’s wife.
(d) Stabler.
4. What does pregnancy do to the narrator and her husband’s desire for each other, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) It gives them more perversities to play out.
(b) It frightens them.
(c) It makes them more chaste and religious.
(d) It makes them cautious and delicate.
5. What part of the baby is the narrator of "Mothers" most afraid of?
(a) Her lips.
(b) The soft spot on her head.
(c) Her toes.
(d) Her fingers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What lesson does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" learn after she gives birth?
2. What does the daughter find, when she gets back to the hotel, in the story of the daughter in Paris?
3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her husband caresses her ribbon?
4. Where does the narrator of "Inventory" go in the end?
5. What color is the narrator’s ribbon in "The Husband Stitch"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do Stabler and Benson notch their furniture?
2. How does the quality of love change over the course of "Inventory"?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the sexual frankness in Her Body and Other Parties?
4. What is the effect of having unnamed narrators?
5. What is the dominant investigation taking place in ‘"Especial Heinous"?
6. What role do the interns play in Stabler and Benson’s drama?
7. What do we know about the virus that is killing people off in "Inventory"?
8. What is Machado’s style like?
9. Is the ending or "Inventory" a triumph or a defeat?
10. What is Benson’s relationship with produce?
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