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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 "The Resident" say the hotel resembles?
(a) A movie house.
(b) A piece of popcorn.
(c) A piece of salt-water taffy.
(d) A hospital.

2. How does Gizzy try to keep the narrator working at Glam?
(a) She offers her a raise.
(b) She offers to employ the incorporeal girls.
(c) She offers to purge the incorporeal girls.
(d) She offers her a promotion.

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

4. What does the narrator get in her mouth when Petra kisses her?
(a) Petra’s hair.
(b) Petra’s contact lens.
(c) Petra’s necklace.
(d) Petra’s shirt.

5. How does Natalie hang the dresses at Glam, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) Roughly.
(b) Reverently.
(c) Indifferently.
(d) Haphazardly.

6. What does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" do once she realizes that she is going incorporeal as well as Petra?
(a) Stitches herself to Petra.
(b) Gets Petra’s mother to sew her into a dress.
(c) Frees the incorporeal girls from the dresses at Glam.
(d) Plots an act of terrorism.

7. What was Devil’s Throat called before it was Devil’s Throat, in "The Resident"?
(a) Devil’s Staircase.
(b) Angel’s Mouth.
(c) Angel’s Eye.
(d) Child’s Mouth.

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

9. What does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" say her boss Gizzy has lost?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her career.
(c) Her parents.
(d) Her daughter.

10. How many sisters does the narrator of "Eight Bites" have?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

11. Who unpacks the narrator’s car, of "The Resident"?
(a) Anele.
(b) Benjamin.
(c) Edna.
(d) Lydia.

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

13. How does the narrator of "Eight Bites" say her body felt after pregnancy?
(a) Like a trashed hotel room.
(b) Like a construction site.
(c) Like a hurricane.
(d) Like a disaster zone.

14. What is Petra’s first question to the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) Want to go for coffee?
(b) Want to see the workshop?
(c) You like it here?
(d) You getting off soon?

15. How long a drive is the residency from C——‘s home, in "The Resident"?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Four hours.
(c) Two days.
(d) Half an hour.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator characterize Petra’s mother, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

2. What does the girl in the Brownie song look for?

3. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say it means to be a resident?

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

5. How does the narrator of "The Resident" characterize her novel?

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