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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles, 2017 and San Joaquin Valley, 2017 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What label did the unnamed narrator's mother apply to her when she reacted negatively to an admission about sex with her therapist?
(a) Bore.
(b) Square.
(c) Jerk.
(d) Prude.

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

3. What emotion did the unnamed narrator feel when Artemisia finished her story in the section entitled Italy, 2000?
(a) Shame.
(b) Anger.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Pity.

4. What activity did the unnamed narrator once rely upon in order to calm her nerves?
(a) Singing.
(b) Writing.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Driving.

5. Laura told the unnamed narrator that for a man, "telling people what you want makes you" (60) what?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Angry.
(d) Weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the section entitled Santa Barbara, 2016 begins, the unnamed narrator describes taking what action with another woman?

2. The unnamed narrator reflects in Los Angeles, 2011 that "every confidence is a kind of" (65) what?

3. What kind of new lifestyle was John beginning at the time discussed in San Francisco, 2012?

4. What kind of people-mover did the unnamed narrator begin to use obsessively during her affair with a married man?

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

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