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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. How many of the narrator’s sisters have had the procedure Dr. U performs, in "Eight Bites"?
2. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say her talent is?
3. What effect does the photo shoot and the subsequent flight have on the narrator of "The Resident"?
4. What does the narrator compare Petra to, when she sits on top of her?
5. How does Petra test the incorporeality of her hands, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is it that brings C—— back to the camp where she had been a girl?
2. What is the narrator’s health like, in "The Resident," and how does it affect the story?
3. What is the narrator’s co-worker Natalie like, as a co-worker in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
4. What is the thing the narrator of "Eight Bites"has been hearing around her house?
5. In "The Resident," what are the other artists like, at the residency?
6. in "The Resident," what is the "Brownie song," and what role does it play in the story?
7. How does the public first learn of the women who are "going incorporeal" in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
8. What kind of operation does the narrator of "Eight Bites" go in for?
9. What is the significance of the name of the location where C——‘s residency takes place in "The Resident"?
10. What ‘incident’ took place when the narrator of "The Resident" was a child, which she is now returning to as an adult?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Would you recommend Her Body and Other Parties? For what purposes would you recommend Her Body and Other Parties, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
Essay Topic 2
Who is the audience for Her Body and Other Parties? What is the ideal reader for Her Body and Other Parties likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
Is happiness possible, in Machado’s terms? Is it even desirable? If happiness is not the most important thing to feel, what would be more important, in Machado’s world? How does Machado show us ways to explore alternatives to happiness?
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