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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. In "My Parents and My Children," what does Javier tell Charly he does not do?
(a) Dance.
(b) Sing.
(c) Eat meat.
(d) Drive.

2. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator leave when she sees Mr. Weimer in the beginning of the story?
(a) The clothes in the dryer.
(b) Dishes in the sink.
(c) The dog unfed.
(d) The pie in the oven.

3. In "Breath From the Depths," how long has Lola been married to her husband?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 45 years.
(c) 21 years.
(d) 57 years.

4. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator realize with a shock about herself and Mr. Weimer?
(a) They are angry with each other.
(b) They are in sync.
(c) They are both the same religion.
(d) They are in love.

5. In "Breath From the Depths," who does Lola like to watch on television?
(a) Dr. Henries.
(b) Dr. Winston.
(c) Dr. Pettersen.
(d) Dr. Gayle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Breath From the Depths," who does Lola live with?

2. In "None of That," what does the mother often do with things she steals from others?

3. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," who has Mr. Weimer lost?

4. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does Mrs. Weimer repeatedly throw on the narrator's lawn?

5. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola begin to suspect about her own life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the mother in "None of That" do once she is in the stranger's house?

2. What does Mr. Weimer repeatedly collect from the narrator's lawn in "It Happens All the Time in This House"?

3. What does the narrator in "None of That" think her mother has been doing with her, the narrator's, time in this story?

4. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator wish her own son will do at the very end of the story?

5. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola's husband bring into the kitchen so she can cook and do dishes?

6. What does the narrator say has happened to her father in the story "None of that"?

7. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator feel obligated to say to Mr. Weimer towards the story's end?

8. What does the mother frequently do in "None of That"?

9. In "My Parents and My Children," what does Javier think of Charly?

10. In "Breath From the Depths," what unsettles Lola greatly about their neighborhood?

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