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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 does the daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?
2. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the boy she meets in the beginning of the story?
3. What is the term for the episode that ends "Mothers"?
4. What was Father Jones feeding the girl on the rooftop before she fell off?
5. Who warns the narrator of "Mothers" that Bad’s treatment of her is not normal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of the narrator’s green ribbon, in "The Husband Stitch"?
2. What is the noise Stabler and Benson hear throughout "Especial Heinous"?
3. What special gift does Stabler possess, which travels from person to person like a virus?
4. Is the ending or "Inventory" a triumph or a defeat?
5. What is happening in the ending of "Mothers"?
6. What can the title of this book mean?
7. What does "the husband stitch" refer to?
8. What are Abler and Henson’s relationship with Stabler and Benson?
9. How does the quality of love change over the course of "Inventory"?
10. What is the dominant investigation taking place in ‘"Especial Heinous"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of men in Her Body and Other Parties? How does Machado describe masculinity and the role men play in women’s lives?
Essay Topic 2
How would you defend Carmen Machado against the accusation Lydia makes to C—— M—— in "The Resident," that she is really the ‘madwoman in the attic’?
Essay Topic 3
Who is the audience for Her Body and Other Parties? What is the ideal reader for Her Body and Other Parties likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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