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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 is the woman doing on the TV at the gas station on the narrator’s way to Devil’s Throat, in "The Resident"?
(a) Eating in a dining hall.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Waving her arms in a field.
(d) Kissing another girl.

2. What is the term for the episode that ends "Mothers"?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Flashback.
(c) Reminiscence.
(d) Flash forward.

3. How long is it, after the doctor says that he might have to perform a Caesarean section delivery, that the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" gives birth?
(a) Ten hours.
(b) Six hours.
(c) Two hours.
(d) 20 minutes.

4. What does the narrator of "Mothers" dream love might be able to do?
(a) Heal Bad’s wounds.
(b) Outdo nature.
(c) Save her soul.
(d) Redeem the world.

5. What is the term for Abler and Henson?
(a) Shadows.
(b) Doppelgangers.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Twins.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?

2. How many times does the narrator have "eight bites" after her sister visits her, after she had had the procedure?

3. What color is the narrator’s ribbon in "The Husband Stitch"?

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

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

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