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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 the narrator of "The Resident" characterize the hotel where the Devil’s Throat residency takes place?
(a) As a grand edifice.
(b) As a curious piece of art.
(c) As a bloody sore.
(d) As an infection.

2. What does the narrator of "The Resident" plan to do after this residency?
(a) Get out of town and never go back.
(b) Support other artists.
(c) Repay the people who supported her.
(d) Stand on her own.

3. 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) Being tired after walking any distances.
(c) Slipping sideways to get through tight spaces.
(d) Her knees aching from her weight.

4. What does the décor of Glam remind its customers of?
(a) Candy.
(b) Youth.
(c) A museum.
(d) Mortality.

5. Where does the narrator of "Eight Bites" go for her last meal before surgery?
(a) A restaurant called Minnie’s.
(b) A restaurant called Peppercorn.
(c) A restaurant called Salt.
(d) A restaurant called Jack’s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gets blamed for the incorporeal girls in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

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

3. How does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" describe Petra in her first interactions with her?

4. Why does the narrator of "The Resident"get pulled over on her way to Devil’s Throat?

5. How many times does the narrator have "eight bites" after her sister visits her, after she had had the procedure?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of relationship develops between the narrator and Petra in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

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

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

5. in "The Resident," what is the "Brownie song," and what role does it play in the story?

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

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

8. What is the narrator’s health like, in "The Resident," and how does it affect the story?

9. What is the irony the narrator of "Eight Bites"notices about Dr. U?

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

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