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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator of "Eight Bites" go for her last meal before surgery?
(a) A restaurant called Peppercorn.
(b) A restaurant called Salt.
(c) A restaurant called Jack’s.
(d) A restaurant called Minnie’s.

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

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

4. How many of the narrator’s sisters have had the procedure Dr. U performs, in "Eight Bites"?
(a) Two of them.
(b) All of them.
(c) Only one.
(d) None of them.

5. How old is Petra when her incorporeality begins?
(a) 22.
(b) 17.
(c) 29.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What confirms to the narrator of "The Resident" that she has arrived at a place from her past?

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

4. When does the narrator of "Eight Bites" imagine she will reconcile herself with her extra self?

5. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say the hotel resembles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator’s relationship like, with her shadow self in "Eight Bites"?

2. in "The Resident," what is the "Brownie song," and what role does it play in the story?

3. What is the thing the narrator of "Eight Bites"has been hearing around her house?

4. What is the significance of the name of the location where C——‘s residency takes place in "The Resident"?

5. What project does the author plan to work on at Devil’s Mouth?

6. In "The Resident," what does The Painter say that the narrator feels she has heard before?

7. What kind of manager is Gizzy in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

8. How does the public first learn of the women who are "going incorporeal" in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

9. What is the narrator’s health like, in "The Resident," and how does it affect the story?

10. How does Petra’s increasing incorporeality affect her relationship with the narrator?

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