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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. What does Lavinia's mother tell Robert Lavinia should become?
(a) A writer or a painter.
(b) A well taken care of housewife.
(c) A lady preacher or a nurse.
(d) A teacher or a singer.

2. Who does Faith's husband tell her she reminds him of at the end of "Love"?
(a) Louise.
(b) Dotty Wasserman.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Ginny.

3. Who does the narrator in "Love" read her love poem to?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her boyfriend.

4. 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 brother died in the war.
(d) Her father had died in a plane crash.

5. What is the name of Dennis's band in "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute"?
(a) The Lepers.
(b) The Hippies.
(c) The Daddies.
(d) The Vagabonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Faith and her friends visiting Selena in "Friends"?

2. Who tells Faith to "cut the baby talk" (257) when she returns home in "Long Distance Runner"?

3. What does the woman call her husband when he pulls a gun on them in "The Burdened Man"?

4. How long does Faith stay in her old apartment in "Long Distance Runner"?

5. What do the man and woman in "The Burdened Man" do each week after they forgive each other?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story the narrator writes for her father when he asks for a simple story in "A Conversation with My Father."

2. What saved Vicente's wife in "A Man Told Me the Story of His Life"?

3. What does Jack suspect is the real reason Faith wants a baby in "Listening"?

4. How does Faith's family react when she tells them of her stay with Mrs. Luddy in "The Long-Distance Runner"?

5. Describe Nick and Faith's relationship in "The Expensive Moment."

6. What do the men on the subway think of when they see Samuel and his friends jumping on the platform?

7. Why is the birth in "At That Time, or The History of a Joke" said to be a miracle?

8. Why is Lavinia's mother upset at the end of "Lavinia: An Old Story"?

9. What happens to Juniper in "Little Girl"?

10. What does Jack say could happen if they have a baby as the narrator suggests in "The Story Hearer"?

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