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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, "Real Women Have Bodies" - Chapter 6 "Eight Bites".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator of "Mothers" takes the baby from Bad, what does she fail to hear?
(a) Her own weeping.
(b) Bad’s retreating footsteps.
(c) The baby’s crying.
(d) Bad’s abusive screaming.

2. How does the narrator describe other people who have had the procedure?
(a) Svelte.
(b) Withered.
(c) Bony.
(d) Robust.

3. What lesson does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" learn after she gives birth?
(a) That she can satisfy her husband without being satisfied herself.
(b) That she can satisfy her husband and nurse her son at the same time.
(c) That she cannot satisfy her husband unless she is satisfy herself.
(d) That she cannot be satisfied unless her son feels satisfied.

4. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the moral of the story about the girl who died when her wedding dress had been exposed to embalming fluid?
(a) Some things should not be spoken.
(b) Marriage is a sacrament.
(c) Sacred things should not be touched.
(d) Being poor will kill you.

5. How does Petra test the incorporeality of her hands, in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
(a) By putting it in a fire.
(b) By slicing it with a knife.
(c) By cutting it with a broken glass.
(d) By stabbing herself with a dart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people who have had the procedure say at restaurants, in "Eight Bites"?

2. What part of the baby is the narrator of "Mothers" most afraid of?

3. What is the term for the episode that ends "Mothers"?

4. What does Petra do to try to stop the incorporeality?

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" dress her child as for Halloween?

(see the answer key)

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