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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "Difficult at Parties".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Resident" justify her personality after so many episodes with people who find her difficult?
(a) She says that she chose to be this way for her own reasons.
(b) She says that this is what it takes to discover herself.
(c) She says that everyone’s personality is their own cross to bear.
(d) She says that only the people who have found themselves can judge her.

2. What does the décor of Glam remind its customers of?
(a) A museum.
(b) Youth.
(c) Mortality.
(d) Candy.

3. What question is the narrator of "The Resident" trying to figure out in relation to her novel?
(a) How to extricate the main character from her troubles.
(b) How to maximize the main character’s suffering.
(c) How to make the main character’s troubles believable.
(d) How to create a believable back story for the main character’s predicament.

4. How many months would it take the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" to make enough to by the most expensive dress?
(a) One month.
(b) Two months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two weeks.

5. What noise does Stabler hear, repeatedly, in "Especially Heinous"?
(a) Whistling.
(b) Saxophone music.
(c) Two beats, a low drumming.
(d) Accordion music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" do to keep her son from trying to touch the ribbon?

2. What kind of illness does the narrator of "The Resident" come down with?

3. What does the policeman have on his lip, in "The Resident"?

4. Who gets blamed for the incorporeal girls in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

5. How does Benson protect herself against this ghost?

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