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Italy, 2000 and Ann Arbor, 2002

1. An excerpt from which famous writer's journal is used as an epigraph for Topics of Conversation?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Kate Chopin.

2. How old was the unnamed narrator in the summer of 2000?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 23.
(d) 19.

3. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Jodi Picoult.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

4. In which subject did the unnamed narrator major for her undergraduate degree?
(a) English.
(b) Communications.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) French.

5. The first section of the novel Topics of Conversation is set in which month of 2000?
(a) August.
(b) June.
(c) July.
(d) September.

6. In which Italian coastal town did the unnamed narrator spend part of the summer of 2000?
(a) Sorrento.
(b) Scilla.
(c) Rimini.
(d) Otranto.

7. In what capacity did the unnamed narrator work for her friend Camila's family in the summer of 2000?
(a) Cook.
(b) Concierge.
(c) Nanny.
(d) Personal assistant.

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