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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through San Francisco, 2012 and Los Angeles, 2012.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the unnamed narrator tells the story of her one-night stand from the beginning, what type of music drew her into a fancy hotel?
(a) Salsa.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Swing.
(d) Rock.

2. What adjective did the unnamed narrator use to describe her husband John in a conversation with her one-night stand?
(a) Fun.
(b) Dumb.
(c) Nice.
(d) Oblivious.

3. The unnamed narrator reveals what detail about her only child in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011?
(a) The child's father is not alive.
(b) The child's father is not Robert.
(c) The child's father is not Jeff.
(d) The child's father is not John.

4. In what location does the section entitled San Francisco, 2012 open?
(a) The art museum.
(b) The unnamed narrator's hotel room.
(c) The unnamed narrator's home.
(d) A man's hotel room.

5. On the wall of the unnamed narrator's childhood home, there is a tabloid clipping picturing which of her family members "on the arm of Rudolph Valentino" (55)?
(a) Her great-grandmother.
(b) Her second cousin.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things does the unnamed narrator state that she has always wanted?

2. What element does the unnamed narrator NOT include within her definition of female pain?

3. Which member of Camila's family rarely spoke to the unnamed narrator during the trip to Italy in 2000?

4. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?

5. In which subject did the unnamed narrator major for her undergraduate degree?

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