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Machado, Carmen Maria
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Machado, Carmen Maria
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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 TV show is "Especially Heinous" a play on?
(a) Law and Order.
(b) That 70s Show.
(c) The Big Bang Theory.
(d) Bones.

2. Where does the narrator of "Inventory" go in the end?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Canada.
(c) An island off the coast of Maine.
(d) Nantucket.

3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?
(a) The most disingenuous story.
(b) The most real story.
(c) The most common story.
(d) The most forgettable story.

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

5. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her lovemaking with her boyfriend?
(a) Soul-dancing.
(b) Rutting.
(c) Making love.
(d) Screwing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is abducted by a demon?

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

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she knows as soon as she kisses the boy?

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

5. What color is the narrator’s ribbon in "The Husband Stitch"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Machado’s style like?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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