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Siri Hustvedt, Eight Days in a Corset

Siri Hustvedt, Eight Days in a Corset

Read Eight Days in a Corset and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. After a few minutes in the tight corset, how did the author feel?

silly

disembodied

asexual

faint

2. What was the charm of the corset?

It was vaguely erotic.

It made the author nostalgic.

It hid the author’s imperfections.

It helped the author appreciate the lack of restriction of her regular clothes.

3. In its day, the hoopskirt was a sign of what?

class

humor

pretentiousness

poverty

4. Which of the following is the author’s thesis?

Clothing articulates what you want to be.

Clothes are only an accessory to the real person.

When all is said and done, clothing choices matter very little.

Clothing allows others to imagine you as the person they want you to be.

5. Going to a party in her red jumpsuit and heels, the author was mistaken for

a diva.

a Hollywood celebrity.

a prostitute.

a transvestite.