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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," who is missing partway through the story?
(a) Javier.
(b) The children.
(c) Charly.
(d) Marga.

2. In "Breath From the Depths," what once made Lola nervous seeing all of it in the fridge?
(a) Cottage cheese.
(b) Yogurts.
(c) Cream pies.
(d) Strawberries.

3. In "Breath From the Depths," who has Lola lost?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her daughter.

4. In "Breath From the Depths," what does the woman from the rotisserie once tell Lola?
(a) She needed to go to church more often.
(b) She would like pork if she tried it.
(c) The neighborhood was going to hell.
(d) It is not good to worry and she had to try to be more optimistic.

5. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator wish her own son will do at the end of the story?
(a) Eat more healthily.
(b) Come out and help collect what is on the lawn.
(c) Find a partner.
(d) Move out and get a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In "Breath From the Depths," what was the weather the day of the supermarket incident?

3. In "None of That," what does the mother like to look at?

4. In "None of That," what does the mother tell the daughter she feels about the house?

5. In "My Parents and My Children," what does Javier realize has always been the way in his family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do the narrator and her mother get stuck in "None of That"?

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

3. What do Javier's parents do that is unusual in "My Parents and My Children"?

4. In "None of That," what does the daughter do to try to help her mother regarding the car?

5. In "None of That," what is the woman whose lawn the narrator's mother has ruined mostly seemed concerned about at first?

6. What does the narrator tell the woman who has come looking for what the mother stole in "None of That"?

7. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola write to herself to "wrap"?

8. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator eventually find some kind of kinship with Mr. Weimer over?

9. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what has happened to Mr. Weimer's son?

10. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola remember as a humiliating experience that at this point in the story, the reader does not know details of?

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