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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 defines the weather in the story "Bone Density"?
(a) Extreme heat.
(b) Sun.
(c) Snow and cold.
(d) Tornadoes.

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

3. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" do for a living?
(a) She is a painter.
(b) She is a software engineer.
(c) She is a writer.
(d) She is a lawyer.

4. What is the subject of the Bible verse Father Minty's mother asks him to read at the end of "Bad Priest"?
(a) Temptation and endurance.
(b) Humility.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) Charity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old were Hanna and her twin sister when their mother left the family?

2. What is the name of the narrator's sister's boyfriend in "I Am A Knife"?

3. What secret of the stone thrower's does the stone thrower's glass wife discover?

4. Where do Rebekah and Father Minty have sex for the first time?

5. Who is Hanna's twin sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret of her own does the narrator keep from her unfaithful husband David in "Bone Density"?

2. What does the reader learn about the stone thrower through the eyes of his glass wife at the end of the story?

3. What is the narrator's husband, David, concerned about in relation to the narrator's health in the story "Bone Density"?

4. Why is Natasha in the story "Break All the Way Down" in her relationship with the man she calls her boyfriend?

5. What helps to bring Natasha and Ben back together in "Break All the Way Down"?

6. What does the stone thrower's wife enjoy most about her days?

7. What is appealing to Rebekah about her affair with Father Michael?

8. Why did Father Michael Patrick Minty not really know his father in the story" Bad Priest"?

9. Why does the narrator in "Open Marriage" seem confident her husband will not follow through on his aspirations to have affairs with other women?

10. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" find in her husband's suitcase that confirms her knowledge that he is having an affair?

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