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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 the story written in "Conversations with my Father," what happens to the mother?
(a) She finds a high paying jobs and moves to a nice house.
(b) She gets divorced.
(c) She becomes a junkie.
(d) She dies.

2. What story does Jack tell the narrator for the 30th time in "The Story Hearer"?
(a) How his father left when he was young.
(b) How his mother left when he was young.
(c) How his father died when he was young.
(d) How his grandfather was murdered when he was young.

3. Why does the narrator question her husband's story about his lover, Dotty Wasserman?
(a) Dotty is a made up character from a book.
(b) Dotty has been married for years.
(c) Dotty died when she was young.
(d) She did not realize he and Dotty had ever met.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the narrator's aunt say her grandmother had to do to her 17-year-old son?

2. What toy is George working on in "This is a Story about My Friend George, The Toy Inventor"?

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

4. How long has it been since Ruth has seen her daughter in "The Expensive Moment"?

5. What does Lavinia's mother tell Robert Lavinia should become?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Compare and contrast the mothers at the playground in "Northeast Playground" to the mothers when the older woman was a young mother.

3. Why do the women in "Politics" want a fence built around the playground?

4. What are the men discussing at the deli when Faith overhears them in "Listening"?

5. Why does Jack think his father was sleeping in a crib when he was young? Why does the narrator think he was doing this?

6. What happened to the young girls in "In the Garden"? What does someone tell the stranger they think happened?

7. Who is Sonia in "In This Country: But in Another Language..."? Why is the grandmother worried about ther?

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

9. Who tells the American tourists they "do not love the Chinese people" (288) in "Somewhere Else"?

10. How did Cissy become pregnant with Emmanuel? Why does her father care for him?

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