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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Father Minty and Rebekah do for dates?
(a) They go to dinner at a restaurant several towns away.
(b) They go to the movies.
(c) They have a picnic in the cemetery.
(d) They sit in the church and pray.

2. How does Father Minty first meet Rebekah?
(a) In church.
(b) In the emergency room waiting area.
(c) At his lawyer's office.
(d) At the department store.

3. How did Stephanie's father die?
(a) He overdosed on drugs.
(b) He was driving too fast on an icy bridge.
(c) He was shot by a business partner.
(d) He had a stroke.

4. What do Ben and Natasha do with all of the things from their son's nursery?
(a) Burn them in their backyard.
(b) Give them away.
(c) Keep them for their next baby.
(d) Sell them.

5. What did Hanna do to a boy who was mistreating her twin sister in high school?
(a) Picked him up in her car, drove him hours into the woods, and left him there.
(b) Drugged him and gave him a terrible tattoo.
(c) Bit on his penis, and threatened him.
(d) Held a gun to his head and told him never to touch her sister.

6. How do Hanna and Laura know each other?
(a) They met in a support group.
(b) They met at work.
(c) They are sisters.
(d) They were next door neighbors as children.

7. What kind of a house does the stone thrower live in in the story "Requiem for a Glass Heart"?
(a) A glass house.
(b) A concrete house.
(c) A stone house.
(d) A wood house.

8. How old is Hanna?
(a) 40.
(b) 18.
(c) 27, but she looks far younger.
(d) 35, but she looks far older.

9. Where do the narrator and her husband live in "I Am a Knife"?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) The North Country.
(c) Florida.
(d) The Pacific Northwest.

10. Who is Hanna's husband?
(a) Peter.
(b) Jason.
(c) Edward.
(d) Sal.

11. What happened to Natasha's child in "Break All the Way Down"?
(a) He drowned in a swimming pool.
(b) He had cancer and died.
(c) He fell down the stairs and died.
(d) He was hit by a car and killed in a parking lot.

12. What does the stone thrower's wife most enjoy about her day?
(a) Repairing the cracks in her body.
(b) Visiting her family.
(c) Stripping off her clothes and walking through the world unseen, running through the park.
(d) Cleaning her house.

13. What special communication system do Hanna and her twin sister share?
(a) They have a special twin language.
(b) They use their own hand gestures only they understand.
(c) They can read each others' thoughts.
(d) They have different pitches of whistles that mean different things.

14. What does Rebekah do for a living?
(a) She is a law clerk.
(b) She works at a perfume counter.
(c) She is a waitress.
(d) She is a nun.

15. Who is Stephanie's father's mistress?
(a) Teresa.
(b) Sierra.
(c) Carmella.
(d) Martina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" do for a living?

2. When does Hanna do her best thinking in the story "How"?

3. What does Hanna do to signal to her husband that she is leaving him?

4. Who is the mother of Father Michael Patrick Minty in the story "Bad Priest"?

5. Who is Hanna's twin sister's husband?

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