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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. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say her wife mocks her for?
(a) Her single-minded determination.
(b) Her impatience.
(c) Her indecision about things.
(d) Her strong reactions to things.

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

3. What does the narrator compare Petra to, when she sits on top of her?
(a) A Madonna.
(b) A werewolf.
(c) A vampire.
(d) A ghost.

4. How many dinners does the narrator of "The Resident" miss before Anele comes to check on her?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

5. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say it means to be a resident?
(a) That you will be staying for a while.
(b) That you have been approved.
(c) That you can move on now.
(d) That you belong to a new class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business does Petra’s mother run, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

2. Which woman’s name can the narrator not remember, in "The Resident"?

3. What does the narrator get in her mouth when Petra kisses her?

4. How many months would it take the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" to make enough to by the most expensive dress?

5. How does the narrator of "The Resident" imagine her drive into the mountains?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of the name of the location where C——‘s residency takes place in "The Resident"?

3. What does the narrator’s daughter think about the operation she wants to have in "Eight Bites"?

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

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

6. What is the narrator’s role in Anele’s project called "the Artists"?

7. Why do the narrator of "Eight Bites" and her sisters want this operation?

8. In "Eight Bites", What is the narrator’s final meal like?

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

10. What is the narrator’s relationship like, with her shadow self in "Eight Bites"?

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