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

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

3. Who is Philip's ex-wife in "Dreamer in a Dead Language"?
(a) Dolly Raftery.
(b) Cynthia Darwin.
(c) Anita Franklin.
(d) Dotty Wasserman.

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

5. What toy is George working on in "This is a Story about My Friend George, The Toy Inventor"?
(a) A air hockey table.
(b) A ping pong table.
(c) A ski-ball machine.
(d) A pinball machine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the older woman suggest the unwed mothers at the playground do in "Northeast Playground"?

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

4. What does Mr. Wong scold some of the American tourists for in "Somewhere Else"?

5. Where do Dennis and Alexandra meet in "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator in "Mother" long for?

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

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

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

5. Describe Dennis in "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute." How does he react when he learns Alexandra is pregnant?

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

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

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

9. Who is Mrs. Luddy and why does Faith stay in her apartment?

10. Describe the progression of the man's relationship with his female neighbor in "The Burdened Man."

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