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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. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say it means to be a resident?
(a) That you have been approved.
(b) That you will be staying for a while.
(c) That you belong to a new class.
(d) That you can move on now.

2. What do Anele and the narrator have to run from after their photo shoot, in "The Resident"?
(a) A thunderstorm.
(b) A bear.
(c) Bees.
(d) An avalanche.

3. How many sisters does the narrator of "Eight Bites" have?
(a) Four.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

4. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say her talent is?
(a) Keeping the big picture in mind.
(b) Seeing the miniscule details of things.
(c) Flipping proportions around.
(d) Seeing God in a grain of sand.

5. What does the narrator of "The Resident" plan to do after this residency?
(a) Support other artists.
(b) Stand on her own.
(c) Repay the people who supported her.
(d) Get out of town and never go back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the gas station attendant say about the TV show in "The Resident"?

2. What does the narrator of "The Resident" find on the third day of her walks around the lake?

3. What does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" compare Glam to?

4. What does the narrator of "The Resident" send to her wife?

5. How does the narrator describe other people who have had the procedure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator’s final act before she goes incorporeal in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

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

3. What ‘incident’ took place when the narrator of "The Resident" was a child, which she is now returning to as an adult?

4. What kind of operation does the narrator of "Eight Bites" go in for?

5. What is the narrator’s relationship like with Petra, in the beginning of "Real Women Have Bodies"?

6. What is it that brings C—— back to the camp where she had been a girl?

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

8. What is the narrator’s co-worker Natalie like, as a co-worker in "Real Women Have Bodies"?

9. In "The Resident," what are the other artists like, at the residency?

10. What does the narrator’s daughter think about the operation she wants to have in "Eight Bites"?

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