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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. In what capacity did the unnamed narrator work for her friend Camila's family in the summer of 2000?
(a) Nanny.
(b) Personal assistant.
(c) Cook.
(d) Concierge.

2. What kind of school was the unnamed narrator attending when she met her now-ex-husband John?
(a) Community college.
(b) Technical school.
(c) Art school.
(d) Graduate school.

3. The unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the summer of 2000 used to be her what?
(a) Her professor.
(b) Her doctor.
(c) Her high school teacher.
(d) Her psychologist.

4. In what city do the unnamed narrator's parents live in the house where they raised their daughter?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Fresno.
(d) Boston.

5. What was happening in the unnamed narrator's life when her newly-divorced friend Laura moved in with the unnamed narrator's parents?
(a) She was trying to get a new job.
(b) She was going to college.
(c) She was trying to have a baby with her husband.
(d) She and her husband were selling their home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of media was embedded within the art installation with which the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend interacted?

2. The unnamed narrator asserts that she and her dark-haired friend both loathed what element of life, even as they "understood its necessity" (48)?

3. The unnamed narrator shouted at Tom and Teo for the first time on which night during her period of working for Camila's family?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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