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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. When the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" takes an art course, she meets another woman with a ribbon—where is it?
(a) Around her forehead.
(b) Around her ring finger.
(c) Around her ankle.
(d) Around her wrist.

2. How do Stabler and Benson record their successes?
(a) By donating to a charity.
(b) By going for drinks.
(c) By nothing their furniture.
(d) By notching their pistol grips.

3. What part of the baby is the narrator of "Mothers" most afraid of?
(a) Her fingers.
(b) Her lips.
(c) The soft spot on her head.
(d) Her toes.

4. How does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" describe Petra in her first interactions with her?
(a) Morbid.
(b) Sublime.
(c) Cheery.
(d) Inviting.

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) Marriage is a sacrament.
(b) Some things should not be spoken.
(c) Sacred things should not be touched.
(d) Being poor will kill you.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator and her husband go after their wedding, in "The Husband Stitch"?

2. How does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" treat the dresses after she sees them in Petra’s mother’s workshop?

3. Where is the home the narrator dreams about, in ‘Mothers’?

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her husband caresses her ribbon?

5. Who is Tristan, who appears in the final scene of "Mothers"?

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