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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Faith and the woman say they did not really know how to do at the end of "The Expensive Moment"?
(a) Please their husbands.
(b) Listen.
(c) Save money.
(d) Raise their children.

2. Who tells Faith to "cut the baby talk" (257) when she returns home in "Long Distance Runner"?
(a) Mrs. Luddy.
(b) Anthony.
(c) Jack.
(d) Richard.

3. In "Anxiety," why does the narrator yell at a young father as he walks his child home from school?
(a) He did not carry the girl's backpack for her.
(b) He did not hold the child's hand crossing the street.
(c) He slammed the child down in anger.
(d) He was not paying enough attention to the child.

4. What did Vicente do when he was drafted for the army?
(a) He became an army cook.
(b) He fled the country.
(c) He got killed.
(d) He became an army surgeon.

5. What had Lavinia's mother planned to do for work before she got married?
(a) She wanted to become a teacher.
(b) She wanted to become a doctor.
(c) She wanted to become a nurse.
(d) She wanted to become a seamstress.

6. What do the man and woman in "The Burdened Man" do each week after they forgive each other?
(a) Meet for coffee.
(b) Have sex.
(c) Go out for cocktails.
(d) Go to church.

7. Where does Dennis live?
(a) In a condo.
(b) In a commune.
(c) With his parents.
(d) In a college dorm.

8. What does Ruthy like doing with the neighborhood boys?
(a) Studying.
(b) Kissing them.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Playing war and running races.

9. What did the mother ask of her daughter when she came home at 3 a.m. in "Mother"?
(a) How much she had to drink.
(b) How she will wake up for school the next day.
(c) Who she has been sleeping with.
(d) What time she will come home when she is 20.

10. What do the men Faith listens to at the deli discuss in "Listening"?
(a) What they will order for lunch.
(b) Committing suicide.
(c) Committing murder.
(d) Leaving their wives.

11. Who does Faith find has returned to her house when she comes back from Mrs. Luddy's?
(a) Jack.
(b) Richard.
(c) Anthony.
(d) Ricardo.

12. What event trigged Cissy being sent to a psychiatric home?
(a) She ran through the neighborhood naked.
(b) She robbed an old lady who lived next door.
(c) She beat her mother.
(d) She beat Mr. Z.

13. What does Faith do in "The Expensive Moment," which she does not tell Jack?
(a) Takes a college class.
(b) Hangs out with Ruth.
(c) Visits Nick.
(d) Writes for a newspaper.

14. In Politics, why do the mothers want a fence put up around the playground?
(a) To keep pedophiles away.
(b) To keep drunkards from harassing them.
(c) To keep people from photographing the children.
(d) To keep drug dealers away.

15. What does the narrator think the butcher really meant when he called her "young lady"(340) in "The Story Hearer"?
(a) Sexy thing.
(b) Weak woman.
(c) Dumb broad.
(d) Pathetic hag.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what ways does the older woman think the young mothers are different from young mothers in her day in "Northeast Playground"?

2. Why did Lavinia's mother pull her kids from school?

3. What does Faith learn about her parents while talking with her father in "Dreamer in a Dead Language"?

4. What happens to the woman after her uterine transplant in "At That Time, or the History of a Joke"?

5. How does Charlie think Juniper died in "The Little Girl"?

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