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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of "Eight Bites" think about herself when she considers her last meal?
(a) You are horrible.
(b) You deserve better.
(c) You are dying.
(d) You are going to be reborn.

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

3. When does the narrator of "Eight Bites"say she gained most of her weight?
(a) After high school.
(b) After college.
(c) After marriage.
(d) After pregnancy.

4. What does the policeman have on his lip, in "The Resident"?
(a) Spinach.
(b) Frosting.
(c) A cold sore.
(d) Soup.

5. What confirms to the narrator of "The Resident" that she has arrived at a place from her past?
(a) The rhythm of the waves in the lake.
(b) The sighing of the trees.
(c) The familiar dock and beach.
(d) The mist.

6. What does the girl in the Brownie song look for?
(a) A mirror to see her true self.
(b) An elf who is herself.
(c) Her lost companions.
(d) A doorway out of childhood.

7. What is the name of the narrator’s cottage?
(a) Cardinal’s Crest.
(b) Hawk’s Nest.
(c) Raven’s Wing.
(d) Mourning Dove.

8. What do people who have had the procedure say at restaurants, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) "I’d love some more."
(b) "Thanks, I don’t need any."
(c) "It can’t hurt to have another."
(d) "I couldn’t possibly."

9. How many months would it take the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" to make enough to by the most expensive dress?
(a) Three months.
(b) One month.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Two months.

10. What kind of illness does the narrator of "The Resident" come down with?
(a) Cold.
(b) Fever.
(c) Dysentery.
(d) Shingles.

11. Who told the narrator that she should only allow herself eight bites at each meal?
(a) Dr. U.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her mother.

12. What is the narrator’s daughter’s feeling about the procedure, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) She is indifferent.
(b) She is distraught.
(c) She is angry.
(d) She is supportive.

13. Who gets blamed for the incorporeal girls in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) Petrochemical companies.
(b) Agribusiness.
(c) The fashion industry.
(d) Nuclear reactors.

14. Who does the narrator of "Eight Bites" say her daughter lives with in Portland?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her boyfriend.
(c) Her friends.
(d) A roommate who is not her roommate.

15. When does the narrator of "Eight Bites" imagine she will reconcile herself with her extra self?
(a) When she has the surgery reversed.
(b) At death.
(c) When she learns to refrain from eating.
(d) When she regains her weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Resident" send to her wife?

2. How does the narrator of "Eight Bites" treat her extra self when she catches it in the basement?

3. What does the narrator of "The Resident" find on her steps one morning?

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

5. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say her wife mocks her for?

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