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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 gas station attendant say about the TV show in "The Resident"?
2. When did the reports of women going incorporeal begin?
3. When does the narrator of "Eight Bites" imagine she will reconcile herself with her extra self?
4. Where does the narrator of "Real Women Have Bodies" find work after Glam?
5. When does the narrator of "Eight Bites"say she gained most of her weight?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the narrator’s role in Anele’s project called "the Artists"?
2. How does the public first learn of the women who are "going incorporeal" in "Real Women Have Bodies"?
3. How does Petra’s increasing incorporeality affect her relationship with the narrator?
4. Why do the narrator of "Eight Bites" and her sisters want this operation?
5. What is the irony the narrator of "Eight Bites"notices about Dr. U?
6. What is the thing the narrator of "Eight Bites"has been hearing around her house?
7. What project does the author plan to work on at Devil’s Mouth?
8. What is the narrator’s health like, in "The Resident," and how does it affect the story?
9. in "The Resident," what is the "Brownie song," and what role does it play in the story?
10. What ‘incident’ took place when the narrator of "The Resident" was a child, which she is now returning to as an adult?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is Machado’s book a guide for how to live? Or a cautionary tale about what happens if you try to live fully?
Essay Topic 2
What is the meaning of the title of this book, and how is that meaning developed throughout the unfolding of the various stories? Which stories resonate best with the title? Which resonate less? Why?
Essay Topic 3
When is Her Body and Other Parties most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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