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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "Difficult at Parties".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Crying.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Laughing.
(d) Vomiting.

2. How does the narrator of "Mothers" describe Bad?
(a) Like a river that has been dammed.
(b) Like the moon.
(c) Like an ocean that washes through every breakwater.
(d) Like dirt that has never known rain.

3. What do people who have had the procedure say at restaurants, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) "I’d love some more."
(b) "It can’t hurt to have another."
(c) "I couldn’t possibly."
(d) "Thanks, I don’t need any."

4. What power does Stabler acquire from Father Jones?
(a) The power of seeing through things.
(b) The power of forgetfulness.
(c) The power of foresight.
(d) The power of mind-reading.

5. What does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" do once she realizes that she is going incorporeal as well as Petra?
(a) Plots an act of terrorism.
(b) Frees the incorporeal girls from the dresses at Glam.
(c) Gets Petra’s mother to sew her into a dress.
(d) Stitches herself to Petra.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the narrator’s sisters have had the procedure Dr. U performs, in "Eight Bites"?

2. What does Dr. U do to the narrator of "Eight Bites"?

3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?

4. Who was the narrator’s first sexual experience with, in "Inventory"?

5. How does the narrator of "Mothers" qualify her statement when she tells the baby she loves her?

(see the answer key)

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