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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" hit on her way to Devil’s Throat?
2. What does the narrator of "Eight Bites" order for her last meal?
3. How does Petra test the incorporeality of her hands, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
4. What is Petra’s mother sewing into the dresses she makes?
5. What does the narrator of "The Resident" find on her steps one morning?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the public first learn of the women who are "going incorporeal" in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
2. What is it that brings C—— back to the camp where she had been a girl?
3. What is the thing the narrator of "Eight Bites"has been hearing around her house?
4. Why do the narrator of "Eight Bites" and her sisters want this operation?
5. What project does the author plan to work on at Devil’s Mouth?
6. What ‘incident’ took place when the narrator of "The Resident" was a child, which she is now returning to as an adult?
7. How does the narrator characterize the Glam store in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?
8. In "The Resident," what does The Painter say that the narrator feels she has heard before?
9. What is the significance of the name of the location where C——‘s residency takes place in "The Resident"?
10. What is the narrator’s health like, in "The Resident," and how does it affect the story?
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
Is Machado’s book a guide for how to live? Or a cautionary tale about what happens if you try to live fully?
Essay Topic 3
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
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