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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. How does the narrator describe other people who have had the procedure?
(a) Robust.
(b) Withered.
(c) Svelte.
(d) Bony.

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

3. What is the narrator’s daughter’s feeling about the procedure, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) She is distraught.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She is indifferent.
(d) She is supportive.

4. What question is the narrator of "The Resident" trying to figure out in relation to her novel?
(a) How to maximize the main character’s suffering.
(b) How to create a believable back story for the main character’s predicament.
(c) How to extricate the main character from her troubles.
(d) How to make the main character’s troubles believable.

5. What TV show is "Especially Heinous" a play on?
(a) Law and Order.
(b) That 70s Show.
(c) Bones.
(d) The Big Bang Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" describe Petra in her first interactions with her?

2. In the story of the old man and the old woman, in "The Husband Stitch," whose liver does the old woman eat?

3. When the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" takes an art course, she meets another woman with a ribbon—where is it?

4. Who told the narrator that she should only allow herself eight bites at each meal?

5. When the narrator’s husband asks if the ribbon is secret, what does she tell him?

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