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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of story does the woman's father ask her to write in "Conversations with my Father"?
(a) A romance.
(b) A mystery.
(c) A simple story.
(d) A silly story.
2. Why are Faith and her friends visiting Selena in "Friends"?
(a) She just had a baby.
(b) It is her birthday.
(c) She just got divorced.
(d) She is dying.
3. What does Carter do in Charlie's apartment?
(a) He takes a shower.
(b) He rapes a young girl.
(c) He hides from the cops.
(d) He takes a nap.
4. Why did Faith and Margaret's friendship end in "Love"?
(a) Political Differences separated them.
(b) Margaret slept with Faith's husband.
(c) Margaret did not like Faith's children.
(d) Margaret moved far away.
5. What happens to the woman after her uterine transplant in "At That Time, or the History of a Joke"?
(a) She dies.
(b) She receives a hefty financial settlement from the hospital.
(c) She becomes pregnant.
(d) She develops tumors in her uterus.
6. What does Faith's father begin doing while in the Children of Judea home in "Dreamer in a Dead Language"?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Painting.
7. What lie did Selena's family let her believe until she was 42 years old?
(a) The man who raised her was her biological father.
(b) Her mother died during childbirth.
(c) Her father had died in a plane crash.
(d) Her brother died in the war.
8. What does Ruthy say she would do if she were a boy?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Become a doctor.
(c) Marry Edie.
(d) Become a police office.r
9. What is the name of Dennis's band in "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute"?
(a) The Lepers.
(b) The Daddies.
(c) The Hippies.
(d) The Vagabonds.
10. In the story written in "Conversations with my Father," what happens to the mother?
(a) She becomes a junkie.
(b) She gets divorced.
(c) She dies.
(d) She finds a high paying jobs and moves to a nice house.
11. What does Nick suggest Faith knows nothing about in "The Expensive Moment"?
(a) Politics.
(b) Love.
(c) Finance.
(d) Literature.
12. Where are the friends Anthony visits in "Long-Distance Runner"?
(a) College.
(b) A commune.
(c) California.
(d) State hospitals.
13. Who does Sonia tell the narrator she should read if she really wants to know if she had a life?
(a) Chekov.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Vonnegut.
(d) Turgenev.
14. What reminds the narrator of her mother standing in the doorway at the start of "Mother"?
(a) The sight of her old house.
(b) A woman who looks like her.
(c) A song.
(d) A smell.
15. What did Faith and her friends do to Mr. Zargrowsky years earlier?
(a) Robbed his pharmacy.
(b) Accused him of overmedicating.
(c) Told his wife he cheated on her.
(d) Protest his work saying he was racist.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the narrator in "Love" read her love poem to?
2. Where does Jack say he found his father sleeping once in "The Immigrant Story"?
3. What was Mr. Zagrowsky's occupation before retirement in "Zagrowsky Tells"?
4. What did the mother ask of her daughter when she came home at 3 a.m. in "Mother"?
5. Who is Philip's ex-wife in "Dreamer in a Dead Language"?
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