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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. How many hours of supervised visitation with her children was the artist given as a result of the custody order?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. The unnamed narrator wanted to kiss Artemisia when she found herself overwhelmed by which emotion in the summer of 2000?
(a) Anger.
(b) Lust.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Admiration.

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

4. On the wall of the unnamed narrator's childhood home, there is a tabloid clipping picturing which of her family members "on the arm of Rudolph Valentino" (55)?
(a) Her second cousin.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her great-grandmother.

5. The tenant described disliking her acquaintance because she had retained what quality throughout her first few college years?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Purity.
(c) Originality.
(d) Cheerfulness.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator sometimes thinks that "one of the things [Artemisia] was trying to tell her" (27) was the unhappy status of her what?

2. The tenant stated that the graduate student dated the undergraduate for how long before he raped her at a party?

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

4. What emotion did the unnamed narrator feel when Artemisia finished her story in the section entitled Italy, 2000?

5. At the time of the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2012, the unnamed narrator was which of the following?

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