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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose ghost haunts Benson?
(a) A girl who was murdered and misburied.
(b) The girl turned incorporeal.
(c) The girl who sleepwalked into the forest.
(d) The girl who fell off the roof with Father Jones.

2. What does pregnancy do to the narrator and her husband’s desire for each other, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) It makes them cautious and delicate.
(b) It makes them more chaste and religious.
(c) It frightens them.
(d) It gives them more perversities to play out.

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" give the reader instructions for?
(a) Feeling her feelings in their own bodies.
(b) Reading the story out loud.
(c) Singing the words to the story.
(d) Building a set for the story.

4. What part of the baby is the narrator of "Mothers" most afraid of?
(a) The soft spot on her head.
(b) Her fingers.
(c) Her toes.
(d) Her lips.

5. What does Benson typically do with her groceries?
(a) Donates them to charity.
(b) Throws them away.
(c) Eats them down to the last carrot.
(d) Gives them away.

6. Where does the girl with bells for eyes tell Benson to go?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) California.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) The Bronx.

7. What color is the narrator’s ribbon in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

8. Why does the narrator of "Mothers" say Bad left her?
(a) Because she asked too much.
(b) Because she didn’t have what Bad needed.
(c) Because Bad was broken.
(d) Because she was never around.

9. Where does the virus start, in "Inventory"?
(a) Nevada.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) California.
(d) Minnesota.

10. What does the daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?
(a) Food.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Help.
(d) Drink.

11. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the moral of the story about the girl who died when her wedding dress had been exposed to embalming fluid?
(a) Sacred things should not be touched.
(b) Being poor will kill you.
(c) Marriage is a sacrament.
(d) Some things should not be spoken.

12. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she told a story about at the supermarket, when she was young?
(a) Nails in the seafood.
(b) Toes in the potatoes.
(c) Eyes in the grapes.
(d) Fingers in the chicken.

13. Who does Benson catch by Googling her OKCupid date?
(a) A rapist.
(b) A robber.
(c) A murderer.
(d) A stalker.

14. Who is Tristan, who appears in the final scene of "Mothers"?
(a) The narrator’s new lover.
(b) Bad’s new lover.
(c) Mara’s brother.
(d) Mara’s boyfriend.

15. When the narrator of "Mothers" takes the baby from Bad, what does she fail to hear?
(a) Bad’s abusive screaming.
(b) The baby’s crying.
(c) Her own weeping.
(d) Bad’s retreating footsteps.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator’s husband asks if the ribbon is secret, what does she tell him?

2. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she knows as soon as she kisses the boy?

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the first mistake a woman can make?

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself, in the "dramatis personae" section?

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she does for her boyfriend, which is not normal?

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