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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 does Stephanie do with Teresa after her father dies?
(a) She visits Teresa at her trailer and appears to have a sexual encounter with her.
(b) She and Teresa move in together.
(c) She and Teresa go to church together.
(d) She and Teresa start eating dinner together a few times per week.

2. What kind of a professor is David, the narrator's husband?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Mechanical and biomedical engineering.
(c) English.
(d) Philosophy.

3. Who is the narrator's lover in "Bone Density"?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Bailey.
(c) Bennett.
(d) George.

4. What secret of the stone thrower's does the stone thrower's glass wife discover?
(a) She discovers he is having an affair.
(b) She discovers he goes to the bar to drink during the day.
(c) She discovers he stays outside their son's school and watches their son for hours.
(d) She discovers he is unemployed.

5. What does Natasha's mother say to her when she tells her what happened to her young son in "Break All the Way Down"?
(a) Natasha's mother tells her she should ask the doctor for some sedatives.
(b) Natasha's mother tells her the accident was not her fault.
(c) Natasha's mother asks her how she could have let such an accident happen.
(d) Natasha's mother asks what hospital she is at so she can meet her there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Stephanie's father take her on Saturday mornings in the story "In the Event of my Father's Death"?

2. What does the stone thrower's wife most enjoy about her day?

3. What went wrong in Hanna's father's life?

4. Who does Hanna sometimes kiss in a romantic way?

5. Where does Stephanie's father tell her mother the two of them are going on Saturdays?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Natasha seem to feel responsible for her child's fatal accident in "Break All the Way Down"?

4. What does Natasha finally do that her husband has repeatedly been asking her to do at the end of "Break All the Way Down"?

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

6. How does Hanna feel about her husband Peter in the short story "How"?

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

8. How did Hanna and Laura first become friends?

9. Why does Hanna drive to the college town nearby and invite sexual encounters with college-aged boys in secret?

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

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