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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Italy, 2000 and Ann Arbor, 2002.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character told the unnamed narrator and others a story in Ann Arbor, 2002 about the rape of an undergraduate by a graduate student?
(a) Laura.
(b) The blonde.
(c) John.
(d) The tenant.

2. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?
(a) Covetous.
(b) Amorous.
(c) Nostalgic.
(d) Jealous.

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

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

5. In which city did the unnamed narrator live when she left for a trip in Italy in the summer of 2000?
(a) Carmel.
(b) Sunnyvale.
(c) New York City.
(d) San Francisco.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?

3. In which Italian coastal town did the unnamed narrator spend part of the summer of 2000?

4. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?

5. What is NOT a quality the unnamed narrator ascribed to Artemisia during the summer of 2000?

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