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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What characteristic does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories have?
2. Where do the narrator and her husband go after their wedding, in "The Husband Stitch"?
3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the boy she meets in the beginning of the story?
4. Who does the DA dump Henson for?
5. How frequently does the narrator’s boyfriend come over to her house, in "The Husband Stitch"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Machado’s style like?
2. What is the noise Stabler and Benson hear throughout "Especial Heinous"?
3. What is Benson’s relationship with produce?
4. What kind of relationship does the narrator have with the woman from the art class?
5. What is the importance of the ‘hook-handed hitch-hiker’ in "The Husband Stitch"?
6. What is the effect of the narrator remembering scenes of sexual intimacy within the context of the virus destroying civilization?
7. What role do the interns play in Stabler and Benson’s drama?
8. What does Stabler do to complicate relations with his wife in "Especial Heinous"?
9. What does "the husband stitch" refer to?
10. Is the ending or "Inventory" a triumph or a defeat?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
What are the dangers confronting women in Machado’s stories, and what are the skills they develop—or skills that Machado herself shows us, as narrator—that overcome the dangers or at least compensate for losses?
Essay Topic 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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