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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 talent is?
2. How does Anele’s photo of the narrator of "The Resident" make her look?
3. How does the narrator describe other people who have had the procedure?
4. What does the narrator of "The Resident" plan to do after this residency?
5. Who gets blamed for the incorporeal girls in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the narrator’s health like, in "The Resident," and how does it affect the story?
2. How does the narrator characterize the Glam store in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
3. What is the significance of the name of the location where C——‘s residency takes place in "The Resident"?
4. What is the narrator’s role in Anele’s project called "the Artists"?
5. What is the irony the narrator of "Eight Bites"notices about Dr. U?
6. in "The Resident," what is the "Brownie song," and what role does it play in the story?
7. What ‘incident’ took place when the narrator of "The Resident" was a child, which she is now returning to as an adult?
8. What is the narrator’s relationship like with Petra, in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
9. Why do the narrator of "Eight Bites" and her sisters want this operation?
10. In "The Resident," what does The Painter say that the narrator feels she has heard before?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the dangers confronting women in Machado’s stories, and what are the skills they develop—or skills that Machado herself shows us, as narrator—that overcome the dangers or at least compensate for losses?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is the role of men in Her Body and Other Parties? How does Machado describe masculinity and the role men play in women’s lives?
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