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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many of the narrator’s sisters have had the procedure Dr. U performs, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) Only one.
(b) All of them.
(c) None of them.
(d) Two of them.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Resident" characterize the building at Devil’s Throat?

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

3. Who unpacks the narrator’s car, of "The Resident"?

4. What role does Lydia attribute to the narrator of "The Resident"?

5. What does Petra do to try to stop the incorporeality?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of operation does the narrator of "Eight Bites" go in for?

2. What kind of manager is Gizzy in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

3. What ‘incident’ took place when the narrator of "The Resident" was a child, which she is now returning to as an adult?

4. In "The Resident," what does The Painter say that the narrator feels she has heard before?

5. How does the public first learn of the women who are "going incorporeal" in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

6. What is it that brings C—— back to the camp where she had been a girl?

7. What is the thing the narrator of "Eight Bites"has been hearing around her house?

8. How is "The Resident" different from the other stories?

9. How does the narrator characterize the Glam store in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?

10. What is the narrator’s final act before she goes incorporeal in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

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