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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. The unnamed narrator describes Artemisia's hair in the summer of 2000 as being what length?
(a) Long.
(b) Medium.
(c) Shaved.
(d) Short.

2. One of the artist's exhibitions featured photographs of her recreating poses of which person from her life?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her daughter.

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

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

5. The unnamed narrator states that she realized only later that Artemisia had been "trapped in a" what "of her own design" (27)?
(a) Carnival.
(b) Closet.
(c) Hedge maze.
(d) Corridor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend use to combat their discomfort with a particular element of life?

2. In what city do the unnamed narrator's parents live in the house where they raised their daughter?

3. For which method of transportation did the unnamed narrator advocate during her discussion with her tall, dark-haired friend?

4. How many women were left at the party when the unnamed narrator describes the scene in Ann Arbor, 2002?

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

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