View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" treat the dresses after she sees them in Petra’s mother’s workshop?
(a) She lets Natalie hang them badly.
(b) She crumples them and stuffs them together.
(c) She is kinder to them.
(d) She cuts their seams.

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

4. How does Anele’s photo of the narrator of "The Resident" make her look?
(a) Quizzical.
(b) Gorgeous.
(c) Alluring.
(d) Dead.

5. What quality best suits the narrator’s co-worker Natalie?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Elegance.

6. What do Anele and the narrator have to run from after their photo shoot, in "The Resident"?
(a) An avalanche.
(b) Bees.
(c) A thunderstorm.
(d) A bear.

7. How do Petra and the narrator spend their time once Petra’s incorporeality begins, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) Watching movies.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Making love.
(d) Working out.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What book does the narrator tell Dr. U to read, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) Make way for ducklings.
(b) Ping the duck.
(c) The telltale heart.
(d) The girl with the yellow ribbon and other ghost stories.

14. What does the gas station attendant say about the TV show in "The Resident"?
(a) Rerun.
(b) Breaking news.
(c) Yesterday’s news.
(d) New show.

15. What effect does the photo shoot and the subsequent flight have on the narrator of "The Resident"?
(a) It makes her bitter about her past.
(b) It makes her distrustful of Anele.
(c) It makes her insecure about her body.
(d) It makes her very happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many dinners does the narrator of "The Resident" miss before Anele comes to check on her?

2. How does the narrator describe other people who have had the procedure?

3. What does the narrator of "The Resident" hit on her way to Devil’s Throat?

4. What does the narrator compare Petra to, when she sits on top of her?

5. When does the narrator of "Eight Bites" imagine she will reconcile herself with her extra self?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 578 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample