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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, "The Resident".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Resident" do to treat the raised bumps that appear on her body?
(a) Pierce them with a needle.
(b) Bandage them tightly.
(c) Ignore them.
(d) Apply lotion to them.

2. What business does Petra’s mother run, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) A clothing store.
(b) A photography studio.
(c) A motel.
(d) A gas station.

3. What does Benson typically do with her groceries?
(a) Gives them away.
(b) Throws them away.
(c) Eats them down to the last carrot.
(d) Donates them to charity.

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

5. What does pregnancy do to the narrator and her husband’s desire for each other, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) It makes them cautious and delicate.
(b) It frightens them.
(c) It gives them more perversities to play out.
(d) It makes them more chaste and religious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator of "Eight Bites" go for her last meal before surgery?

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

4. Why does the narrator of "The Resident"get pulled over on her way to Devil’s Throat?

5. Who unpacks the narrator’s car, of "The Resident"?

(see the answer key)

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