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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "Difficult at Parties".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator’s husband’s response, to her answer about whether the ribbon is secret?
(a) He forgives her and withdraws.
(b) He falls asleep angry.
(c) He threatens to hold her and untie it by force.
(d) He makes her pay for keeping it to herself.

2. How many times does the narrator have "eight bites" after her sister visits her, after she had had the procedure?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Nine.

3. How does Petra test the incorporeality of her hands, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) By stabbing herself with a dart.
(b) By putting it in a fire.
(c) By slicing it with a knife.
(d) By cutting it with a broken glass.

4. How does the narrator of "Eight Bites" treat her extra self when she catches it in the basement?
(a) She soothes it.
(b) She chases it out.
(c) She feeds it.
(d) She beats it.

5. What does the narrator of "Eight Bites" get tired of, that leads her to have the procedure?
(a) Being tired after walking any distances.
(b) Her knees aching from her weight.
(c) Her friends’ false voices when they compliment her.
(d) Slipping sideways to get through tight spaces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "Difficult at Parties" see when she watched the VHS tape of her and Paul’s lovemaking?

2. When the narrator’s husband asks if the ribbon is secret, what does she tell him?

3. What is Petra’s first question to the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies"?

4. How long does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" labor for, with her child?

5. What is Paul trying to convince the narrator of "Difficult at Parties" to do?

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