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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1, "The Husband Stitch" - Chapter 2, "Inventory".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?
(a) The most common story.
(b) The most real story.
(c) The most disingenuous story.
(d) The most forgettable story.

2. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels like doing when she hears her husband asking the doctor for the ‘extra stitch’ after she gives birth?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Vomiting.
(d) Crying.

3. What is the narrator inventorying in "Inventory"?
(a) Houses.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Orgasms.

4. What characteristic does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories have?
(a) They drain each other like rivers taking water out of the hills.
(b) They run apart from each other like magnets pushing each other away.
(c) They absorb each other’s strengths like fire.
(d) They run together like raindrops in a pond.

5. What is the husband’s response when he unties the ribbon at the end of "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) He is horrified and instantaneously repentant.
(b) He groans and says no.
(c) He is delighted like a child.
(d) He is vengefully satisfied.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is it, after the doctor says that he might have to perform a Caesarean section delivery, that the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" gives birth?

2. What can the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" not tell the reader, about the opening where her head was attached to her body?

3. Where does the virus start, in "Inventory"?

4. What does the daughter find, when she gets back to the hotel, in the story of the daughter in Paris?

5. At what age does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her memory started?

(see the answer key)

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