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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 "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does Mrs. Weimer repeatedly throw on the narrator's lawn?
(a) Her food.
(b) Her dead son's clothes.
(c) Her flowers.
(d) Her wood scraps.

2. In "My Parents and My Children," what does the narrator think of Charly?
(a) He is very smart.
(b) He is very overweight.
(c) He is good at his job.
(d) He is not very smart.

3. In "None of That," what does the daughter tell herself when she drives her mother home from the stranger's house?
(a) To calm down.
(b) To sing.
(c) To lie.
(d) To make dinner.

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

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) Move out and get a job.
(c) Find a partner.
(d) Come out and help collect what is on the lawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "My Parents and My Children," who is missing partway through the story?

2. In "None of That," what does the mother do in the bedroom while alone that the daughter notices?

3. In "Breath From the Depths," where does Lola want the important things to her to stay?

4. 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?

5. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," where does the narrator tell Mr. Weimer to leave his things?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why is Marga so worried about the kids in "My Parents and My Children"?

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

5. In the end of "My Parents and My Children," where does Javier see his parents and children?

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

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

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

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

10. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," who lives with the narrator?

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