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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 is the name of the narrator’s cottage?
2. What does the narrator of "The Resident" say her wife mocks her for?
3. How does the narrator of "The Resident" justify her personality after so many episodes with people who find her difficult?
4. How does the narrator of "The Resident" characterize her novel?
5. What does the girl in the Brownie song look for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the narrator’s co-worker Natalie like, as a co-worker in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
2. In "Eight Bites", What is the narrator’s final meal like?
3. In "The Resident," what are the other artists like, at the residency?
4. What kind of manager is Gizzy in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
5. How is "The Resident" different from the other stories?
6. Why do the narrator of "Eight Bites" and her sisters want this operation?
7. What kind of relationship develops between the narrator and Petra in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
8. What is the irony the narrator of "Eight Bites"notices about Dr. U?
9. In "The Resident," what does The Painter say that the narrator feels she has heard before?
10. What is the narrator’s final act before she goes incorporeal in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Who is the audience for Her Body and Other Parties? What is the ideal reader for Her Body and Other Parties likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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