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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 does the narrator of "Mothers" qualify her statement when she tells the baby she loves her?
(a) She says that it is a lie.
(b) She says that she will make it true.
(c) She says that it is something she wants to be true.
(d) She says that it as true as she can make it.

2. What does Benson hear the girls-with-bells-for-eyes saying?
(a) Let us rest.
(b) Give us voices.
(c) Murder our murderers.
(d) Take us home.

3. Where do the narrator and her husband go after their wedding, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Europe.
(b) Asia.
(c) South America.
(d) California.

4. What does the narrator of "Eight Bites" order for her last meal?
(a) Clam chowder.
(b) Steak.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Oysters.

5. When did the reports of women going incorporeal begin?
(a) During the protests.
(b) At the beginning of the war.
(c) At the height of the epidemic.
(d) At the height of the recession.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator of "Eight Bites" say her daughter lives with in Portland?

2. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels when the boy "breaks" her?

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

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

5. Whose ghost haunts Benson?

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