It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet.

You’ve got a little boy. He shows you his butterfly collection plus the killing jar.

You’re watching television. Suddenly you realize there’s a wasp crawling on your arm.

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.

You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. You show it to your husband. He likes it so much, he hangs it on your bedroom wall.

You become pregnant by a man who runs off with your best friend, and you decide to get an abortion.

You're watching a stage play - a banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog.

You are given a calf-skin wallet on your birthday...

You have a little boy and he shows you his butterfly collection, including his killing jar.

You’re sitting watching TV, and suddenly you discover a wasp crawling on your wrist.

In a magazine you come across a full-page color picture of a nude girl. Your husband likes the picture. The girl is lying facedown on a large and beautiful bearskin rug. Your husband hangs the picture up on the wall of his study.

You’re reading a novel written in the old days before the war. The characters are visiting Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. They become hungry and enter a seafood restaurant. One of them orders lobster, and the chef drops the lobster into the tub of boiling water while the characters watch.

You rent a mountain cabin, in an area still verdant. It’s rustic knotty pine with a huge fireplace. On the walls someone has hung old maps, Currier and Ives prints, and above the fireplace a deer’s head has been mounted, a full stag with developed horns. The people with you admire the decor of the cabin and you all decide—

You become pregnant, by a man who has promised to marry you. The man goes off with another woman, your best friend; you get an abortion and—

You’re dating a man and he asks you to visit his apartment. While you’re there he offers you a drink. As you stand holding your glass you see into the bedroom; it’s attractively decorated with bullfight posters, and you wander in to look closer. He follows after you, closing the door. Putting his arm around you, he says—

You are watching an old movie on TV, a movie from before the war. It shows a banquet in progress; the guests are enjoying raw oysters. The entrée consists of boiled dog, stuffed with rice. Are raw oysters more acceptable to you than a dish of boiled dog?

My briefcase. Nice, isn’t it? Department issue. Babyhide. One hundred percent genuine human babyhide.