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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. In the story of the pioneer husband and wife, in "The Husband Stitch," what happens to the child?
(a) She dies.
(b) She turns feral.
(c) She becomes a wood nymph.
(d) She is rescued by gypsies.

2. How do Stabler and Benson record their successes?
(a) By going for drinks.
(b) By donating to a charity.
(c) By nothing their furniture.
(d) By notching their pistol grips.

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels like doing when she hears her husband asking the doctor for the ‘extra stitch’ after she gives birth?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Crying.
(d) Vomiting.

4. What noise does Stabler hear, repeatedly, in "Especially Heinous"?
(a) Accordion music.
(b) Saxophone music.
(c) Whistling.
(d) Two beats, a low drumming.

5. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels when the boy "breaks" her?
(a) Arriving home.
(b) Being abducted.
(c) Lost at sea.
(d) Lost in a forest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ghost haunts Benson?

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

3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself after having sex for the first time?

4. How does Benson protect herself against this ghost?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Stabler and Benson notch their furniture?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the effect of the narrator remembering scenes of sexual intimacy within the context of the virus destroying civilization?

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