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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. The street vendor thinks that Lisa is ___________________.
(a) Crazy.
(b) Confused.
(c) In love.
(d) Drunk.

2. What do the narrator and the person in #17 have in common?
(a) They are both in relationships with married men.
(b) They have the same middle name.
(c) They are both Scorpios.
(d) They went to the same college.

3. What does Pat need to find?
(a) A reception venue.
(b) A new dress.
(c) A new bank.
(d) A flat.

4. Whom does Jill want to sue for breach of contract?
(a) Charles Benson.
(b) Jonathan Bensimon.
(c) David Gillespie.
(d) Michael Moore.

5. What intrigues the narrator by the end of the story?
(a) Thinking about whether she will ever get married.
(b) Thinking about whether she would like living in New York.
(c) Thinking about whether she could open a catering business.
(d) Thinking about whether she and Alice could be a couple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May determine NOT to tell Andy?

2. What does Lisa think as she waits for her lover to pick her up for the trip?

3. What does the woman in #7 urge May to do?

4. Who performs May's procedure?

5. Sophie is in what business for herself now?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Rita, the latest temp hired by the newspaper.

2. What is revealed about Rita's husband?

3. What advice does May receive from her Australian roommate at the clinic?

4. What is the premise of "Marble Arch"?

5. What is May's situation in "Shepherd's Bush"?

6. What is the topic of "Shepherd's Bush" and what does the story signal for the following stories?

7. What is the narrator's concern after being identified as a lesbian at the party?

8. Why is Rita shocked by Ken's wife and what lesson does she learn from the dinner with the couples?

9. Who is Charles Benson and why does Jill Twilly require his services?

10. What is the premise of "Queensway"?

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