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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through San Francisco, 2010 and Los Angeles 2011 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many brothers did Camila have during the unnamed narrator's trip to Italy in 2000?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. How many years before the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2010 did the artist divorce her husband?
(a) A dozen.
(b) Several.
(c) A couple.
(d) A score.

3. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) The Northwest.
(b) The Northeast.
(c) The Southwest.
(d) The Midwest.

4. The unnamed narrator wanted to kiss Artemisia when she found herself overwhelmed by which emotion in the summer of 2000?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Lust.
(d) Anger.

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 aunt.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her second cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of school was the unnamed narrator attending when she met her now-ex-husband John?

2. The first section of the novel Topics of Conversation is set in which month of 2000?

3. As the unnamed narrator walked home from the tenant's apartment in Ann Arbor, 2002, she looked forward to drinking what type of alcohol upon arriving home?

4. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?

5. Into what type of receptacle did the unnamed narrator urinate in an expression of anger toward John?

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