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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 kind of illness does the narrator of "The Resident" come down with?
2. How many women are in the entryway when the narrator of "The Resident" arrives?
3. What does the narrator of "The Resident" find on the third day of her walks around the lake?
4. What effect does the photo shoot and the subsequent flight have on the narrator of "The Resident"?
5. What is Petra’s first question to the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "The Resident," what are the other artists like, at the residency?
2. What project does the author plan to work on at Devil’s Mouth?
3. What is the narrator’s role in Anele’s project called "the Artists"?
4. What is the significance of the name of the location where C——‘s residency takes place in "The Resident"?
5. in "The Resident," what is the "Brownie song," and what role does it play in the story?
6. What does the narrator’s daughter think about the operation she wants to have in "Eight Bites"?
7. What is the narrator’s relationship like, with her shadow self in "Eight Bites"?
8. How does the narrator characterize the Glam store in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
9. What is the narrator’s co-worker Natalie like, as a co-worker in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
10. What kind of relationship develops between the narrator and Petra in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
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 is the meaning of the title of this book, and how is that meaning developed throughout the unfolding of the various stories? Which stories resonate best with the title? Which resonate less? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate your own reading of Her Body and Other Parties—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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