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

2. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her lovemaking with her boyfriend?
(a) Making love.
(b) Soul-dancing.
(c) Rutting.
(d) Screwing.

3. What does the narrator compare the girls-with-bells-for-eyes to?
(a) Picasso’s portraits of women.
(b) Diego Rivera’s peasants.
(c) Dali’s melted clocks.
(d) Diane Arbus portraits.

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

5. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her husband caresses her ribbon?
(a) As if he were considering murdering her.
(b) As if he were solving a math problem.
(c) As if he were drawing inspiration from it.
(d) As if he were touching her sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself after having sex for the first time?

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

3. When the narrator of "Mothers" takes the baby from Bad, what does she fail to hear?

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the boy she meets in the beginning of the story?

5. What TV show is "Especially Heinous" a play on?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of having unnamed narrators?

2. What does "the husband stitch" refer to?

3. What is the noise Stabler and Benson hear throughout "Especial Heinous"?

4. What kind of atmosphere does Machado create with her epigrams?

5. How does the quality of love change over the course of "Inventory"?

6. What is the DA’s relationship with Benson?

7. What is happening in the ending of "Mothers"?

8. How would you describe the atmosphere Machado creates in "Especial Heinous"?

9. How is Stabler’s life unlike the girls with bells with eyes?

10. Is the ending or "Inventory" a triumph or a defeat?

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