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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 Husband Stitch" give the reader instructions for?
(a) Singing the words to the story.
(b) Building a set for the story.
(c) Reading the story out loud.
(d) Feeling her feelings in their own bodies.

2. What does the narrator of "The Resident" find on the third day of her walks around the lake?
(a) A rowboat.
(b) A dock.
(c) A canoe.
(d) A hat.

3. What does Benson hear the girls-with-bells-for-eyes saying?
(a) Let us rest.
(b) Give us voices.
(c) Take us home.
(d) Murder our murderers.

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself, in the "dramatis personae" section?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Forgettable.
(c) Forgetful.
(d) Memorable.

5. In the story of the pioneer husband and wife, in "The Husband Stitch," what happens to the child?
(a) She is rescued by gypsies.
(b) She turns feral.
(c) She dies.
(d) She becomes a wood nymph.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the décor of Glam remind its customers of?

2. Who does the DA dump Henson for?

3. What part of the baby is the narrator of "Mothers" most afraid of?

4. What is the husband’s response when he unties the ribbon at the end of "The Husband Stitch"?

5. Where does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" find work after Glam?

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