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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’s husband asks if the ribbon is secret, what does she tell him?
(a) She says that it is a secret.
(b) She says that he can untie it in time.
(c) She says that it is not hers to give him.
(d) She says that it is not secret, it is just hers.

2. How does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" treat the dresses after she sees them in Petra’s mother’s workshop?
(a) She cuts their seams.
(b) She lets Natalie hang them badly.
(c) She crumples them and stuffs them together.
(d) She is kinder to them.

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

4. What kinds of dogs does Dr. U have in her office, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) Pomeranians.
(b) Chows.
(c) Eskimo dogs.
(d) Huskies.

5. How long does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" labor for, with her child?
(a) 20 hours.
(b) Two days.
(c) 10 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets blamed for the incorporeal girls in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

2. What does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" say her boss Gizzy has lost?

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

4. What does pregnancy do to the narrator and her husband’s desire for each other, in "The Husband Stitch"?

5. What can the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" not tell the reader, about the opening where her head was attached to her body?

(see the answer key)

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