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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the moral of the story about the girl who died when her wedding dress had been exposed to embalming fluid?
2. What TV show is "Especially Heinous" a play on?
3. Who was the narrator’s first sexual experience with, in "Inventory"?
4. What does the daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?
5. When the narrator of "Mothers" and Bad are in Georgia, what does Bad say about the ocean?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does "the husband stitch" refer to?
2. How does the quality of love change over the course of "Inventory"?
3. How would you describe the atmosphere Machado creates in "Especial Heinous"?
4. What is Benson’s relationship with produce?
5. What is the effect of the narrator remembering scenes of sexual intimacy within the context of the virus destroying civilization?
6. What is the DA’s relationship with Benson?
7. What are Abler and Henson’s relationship with Stabler and Benson?
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the sexual frankness in Her Body and Other Parties?
9. What is the dominant investigation taking place in ‘"Especial Heinous"?
10. Is the ending or "Inventory" a triumph or a defeat?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "The Resident," the narrator says that her talent comes from the ability to ‘manipulate proportions.’ Assess this statement in terms of its applicability to Machado’s book as a whole. Where do you see this quality in the stories? Is it the main source of the strength in Machado’s work? What other talents compete with this quality, to be the most important part of her work?
Essay Topic 2
Write an evaluative review of Her Body and Other Parties. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
Essay Topic 3
What lessons does Her Body and Other Parties have to teach women? What lessons does it have to teach men? What would a book titled ‘His Body and Other Parties’ be like?
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