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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 narrator of "The Husband Stitch" do to keep her son from trying to touch the ribbon?
(a) Let him hold it, warily.
(b) Slap his hand away.
(c) Shake a can of pennies.
(d) Distract him by jingling keys.

2. Where is the home the narrator dreams about, in ‘Mothers’?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Maine.
(c) Texas.
(d) California.

3. What does Stabler discover his wife had seen in her twenties?
(a) A river monster.
(b) A sasquatch.
(c) A hook-handed hitch-hiker.
(d) A UFO.

4. What characteristic does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories have?
(a) They run apart from each other like magnets pushing each other away.
(b) They absorb each other’s strengths like fire.
(c) They run together like raindrops in a pond.
(d) They drain each other like rivers taking water out of the hills.

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the second mistake a woman can make?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Passion.
(c) Coldness.
(d) Pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "Mothers" describe Bad’s baby’s eyes?

2. What was Father Jones feeding the girl on the rooftop before she fell off?

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

4. How does the narrator of "Mothers" describe Bad?

5. In the "Bad blood" episode summary, what to Stabler and Benson say about the crime they solved?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Machado’s style like?

7. Why do Stabler and Benson notch their furniture?

8. What can the title of this book mean?

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

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

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