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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 many months would it take the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" to make enough to by the most expensive dress?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) One month.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two months.

2. What does Petra do to try to stop the incorporeality?
(a) Eat spinach.
(b) Take dietary supplements.
(c) Drink milk.
(d) Use special lotions.

3. How old is Petra when her incorporeality begins?
(a) 29.
(b) 17.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" say her boss Gizzy has lost?

2. What does the narrator of "The Resident" do to treat the raised bumps that appear on her body?

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

4. How does the narrator of "The Resident" justify her personality after so many episodes with people who find her difficult?

5. What kind of illness does the narrator of "The Resident" come down with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the narrator’s relationship like with Petra, in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?

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

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

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

6. What project does the author plan to work on at Devil’s Mouth?

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

8. How does Petra’s increasing incorporeality affect her relationship with the narrator?

9. In "The Resident," what are the other artists like, at the residency?

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

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