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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 Resident" say she is driving toward?
(a) A completed novel.
(b) A new self.
(c) Fame and fortune.
(d) A reconciliation with her past.

2. What is Petra’s first question to the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) You like it here?
(b) Want to see the workshop?
(c) You getting off soon?
(d) Want to go for coffee?

3. When does the narrator of "Eight Bites" imagine she will reconcile herself with her extra self?
(a) When she regains her weight.
(b) When she learns to refrain from eating.
(c) When she has the surgery reversed.
(d) At death.

4. How does the narrator of "Eight Bites" treat her extra self when she catches it in the basement?
(a) She soothes it.
(b) She beats it.
(c) She feeds it.
(d) She chases it out.

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the moral of the story about the girl who died when her wedding dress had been exposed to embalming fluid?
(a) Sacred things should not be touched.
(b) Being poor will kill you.
(c) Marriage is a sacrament.
(d) Some things should not be spoken.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Petra test the incorporeality of her hands, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

2. Who does the DA dump Henson for?

3. How frequently does Benson buy groceries?

4. What does the gas station attendant say about the TV show in "The Resident"?

5. What noise does Stabler hear, repeatedly, in "Especially Heinous"?

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