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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Emmanuel in "Zagrowsky Tells"?
(a) Faith's son.
(b) Cissy's cousin.
(c) Mr. Zagrowsky's grandson.
(d) Faith's boyfriend.

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

4. In what ways does the older woman think the young mothers are different from young mothers in her day in "Northeast Playground"?
(a) They are more unified.
(b) They have fewer children.
(c) They are much wealthier.
(d) They are happier.

5. What was Lavinia born doing, according to "Lavinia: An Old Story"?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Eating.
(c) Talking.
(d) Crying.

6. What does the woman ask Mr. Zagrowsky at the start of "Zagrowsky Tells"?
(a) What he is doing staring at her.
(b) Why he closed the pharmacy.
(c) What he is doing without his wife.
(d) What he is doing with the Black child.

7. What does the older woman in "Northeast Playground" say separated mothers on the playground when she was younger?
(a) Politics.
(b) Marital status.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Parenting styles.

8. Who is Cissy in "Zagrowsky Tells"?
(a) Mr. Zagrowsky's wife.
(b) Faith's friend.
(c) Faith's sister.
(d) Mr. Zagrowsky's daughter.

9. Why does Mrs. Luddy keep Donald inside the apartment?
(a) She worries his father will kidnap him.
(b) She wants him to take care of the babies.
(c) She worries he will become a drug addict.
(d) He is hiding from the police.

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

11. Why does Carter want to use Charlie's apartment in "The Little Girl"?
(a) To use the shower.
(b) To have sex with a girl.
(c) To hide from the cops.
(d) To take a nap.

12. What did Vicente want to be when he was young as told in "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life" (335)?
(a) An engineer.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A doctor.

13. What does Ruthy say she would do if she were a boy?
(a) Become a police office.r
(b) Marry Edie.
(c) Join the army.
(d) Become a doctor.

14. What does the narrator tell Jack after he wakes up with a scream in "The Story Hearer"?
(a) They need separate bedrooms.
(b) She never loved him.
(c) She wants a divorce.
(d) She wants to have a baby.

15. What does one neighbor tell the stranger about the young girls in "In the Garden"?
(a) She thinks he kidnapped the girls.
(b) Their father was involved in the kidnapping.
(c) They are better off without their mother.
(d) The girls are a figment of the woman's imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Samuel die in "Samuel"?

2. In "The Burdened Man," what is the woman's husband's occupation?

3. What does Carter do in Charlie's apartment?

4. What did Faith and her friends do to Mr. Zargrowsky years earlier?

5. Who is the father of Cissy's child?

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