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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tricia judge the people she cleans houses for?
(a) By the quality of their shoes.
(b) By their skin color.
(c) She talks to them, and if they are unfriendly or ignore her, she decides they are bad people.
(d) By their accents.

2. What does the narrator discover at her medical appointment at the end of the story "The Mark of Cain"?
(a) She is pregnant with twins.
(b) Her cancer has spread from her breast to her lungs.
(c) She will need surgery for a brain tumor.
(d) She needs to have a limb amputated.

3. What does Kate do for a living?
(a) She is an English professor.
(b) She is a structural engineer.
(c) She is a mathematician.
(d) She is a linguist.

4. What kind of activity do Tate and the unnamed narrator organize for other women in the story "Baby Arm"?
(a) A roller derby where the participants compete for drugs and money.
(b) A high-stakes poker night.
(c) A night-time swimming class in shark-infested waters.
(d) A fight club where women can come to beat each other up.

5. Where does Savvie's sister, Carolina, want Savvie to go with her to find her estranged husband?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Reno.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Chicago.

6. What band does Kate love?
(a) The Counting Crows.
(b) U2.
(c) Coldplay.
(d) The Beastie Boys.

7. Where has Marcy lived her whole life before moving to Florida in the story "Florida"?
(a) California.
(b) The Northeast.
(c) Europe.
(d) The Midwest.

8. What channel does Candy tell Sarah to watch for inspiration for her strip dances?
(a) MTV.
(b) TNT.
(c) CBS.
(d) BET.

9. What is the name of the unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the story "Baby Arm"?
(a) Jed.
(b) Alvarez.
(c) Gus.
(d) Willy.

10. What tattoo do the twins in "The Mark of Cain" both have?
(a) A tattoo of their father's likeness.
(b) A tattoo of skulls.
(c) A tattoo of wolves.
(d) A tattoo of previous girlfriends.

11. What does a crazy woman eat in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) Lots of cream, cheese, and other dairy.
(b) Shredded wheat.
(c) Everything in strictly proportioned and measured amounts.
(d) Four raw eggs a day along with half a grapefruit.

12. What trauma has Kate suffered before she meets her new boyfriend in Michigan?
(a) She has lost her twin sister.
(b) She has lost her husband.
(c) She has lost a baby.
(d) She has lost both of her parents.

13. What is one of Savvie's boyfriend's annoying habits?
(a) He picks his teeth in public.
(b) He always repeats himself.
(c) He does not shave and has a long beard.
(d) He only talks in lines from movies.

14. What evidence do the police find of Savvie's and Carolina's abduction that is particularly difficult for the sisters to confront?
(a) Knives.
(b) Videotapes.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Handcuffs.

15. What university does Sarah attend?
(a) Georgetown University.
(b) Johns Hopkins.
(c) University of Maryland.
(d) American University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does death have on girls in the story "Difficult Women"?

2. What does a crazy woman bring to her child's school for a snack that another mother does not like in the story "Difficult Women"?

3. Where does William Livingston III live?

4. What substance follows Bianca where ever she goes?

5. Which identical twin does the narrator in "The Mark of Cain" prefer?

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