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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 Resident" say her wife mocks her for?
2. What does the narrator of "Eight Bites" get tired of, that leads her to have the procedure?
3. What does the policeman have on his lip, in "The Resident"?
4. What is Petra’s mother sewing into the dresses she makes?
5. What does the narrator of "The Resident" plan to do after this residency?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the narrator’s co-worker Natalie like, as a co-worker in "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. How does Petra’s increasing incorporeality affect her relationship with the narrator?
4. What is the thing the narrator of "Eight Bites"has been hearing around her house?
5. How does the narrator characterize the Glam store in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
6. What project does the author plan to work on at Devil’s Mouth?
7. What does the narrator’s daughter think about the operation she wants to have in "Eight Bites"?
8. What is it that brings C—— back to the camp where she had been a girl?
9. What kind of relationship develops between the narrator and Petra in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
10. What kind of operation does the narrator of "Eight Bites" go in for?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the proposition that Her Body and Other Parties is obscene and should be censored for high school students.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
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