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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, "Real Women Have Bodies" - Chapter 6 "Eight Bites".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Petra and the narrator spend their time once Petra’s incorporeality begins, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) Working out.
(b) Watching movies.
(c) Making love.
(d) Traveling.

2. What does the daughter find, when she gets back to the hotel, in the story of the daughter in Paris?
(a) Her mother has all the help she needed.
(b) Her mother is dead.
(c) Her mother is better.
(d) Her mother is gone.

3. What happens when Benson tries to push the girls with bells with eyes away from her?
(a) They enter into her body.
(b) They hit the wall hard.
(c) They move too quickly to be pushed.
(d) Her hands go right through them.

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

5. How does Benson protect herself against this ghost?
(a) She performs an exorcism.
(b) She sleeps with a crucifix.
(c) She hires a medium.
(d) She burns sage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How frequently does the narrator’s boyfriend come over to her house, in "The Husband Stitch"?

2. What is the term for the episode that ends "Mothers"?

3. 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?

4. How does the narrator describe other people who have had the procedure?

5. 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?

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