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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" send to her wife?
2. How does the narrator of "Eight Bites" say her body felt after pregnancy?
3. What is the narrator’s daughter’s feeling about the procedure, in "Eight Bites"?
4. Who unpacks the narrator’s car, of "The Resident"?
5. What does the narrator compare Petra to, when she sits on top of her?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "The Resident," what does The Painter say that the narrator feels she has heard before?
2. in "The Resident," what is the "Brownie song," and what role does it play in the story?
3. What is the narrator’s co-worker Natalie like, as a co-worker in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
4. How does Petra’s increasing incorporeality affect her relationship with the narrator?
5. What project does the author plan to work on at Devil’s Mouth?
6. What kind of manager is Gizzy in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
7. What is the significance of the name of the location where C——‘s residency takes place in "The Resident"?
8. What is the irony the narrator of "Eight Bites"notices about Dr. U?
9. How does the public first learn of the women who are "going incorporeal" in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
10. What is it that brings C—— back to the camp where she had been a girl?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How would you defend Carmen Machado against the accusation Lydia makes to C—— M—— in "The Resident," that she is really the ‘madwoman in the attic’?
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
Write an evaluative review of Her Body and Other Parties. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
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