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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. The unnamed narrator shouted at Tom and Teo for the first time on which night during her period of working for Camila's family?
(a) The first.
(b) The eighth.
(c) The third.
(d) The tenth.

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

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

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

5. What does the unnamed narrator cite as "the Perez family policy" (11)?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Vibrance.
(c) Humor.
(d) Honesty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the unnamed narrator describe the temperature of the nighttime air she encountered as she walked home at the end of Ann Arbor, 2002?

2. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?

3. The unnamed narrator wanted to kiss Artemisia when she found herself overwhelmed by which emotion in the summer of 2000?

4. The final sentence of Ann Arbor, 2002 describes the unnamed narrator's plan to take what action when she gets home?

5. In which city did the unnamed narrator live when she left for a trip in Italy in the summer of 2000?

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