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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 state did Laura accept a fellowship around the same time the unnamed narrator moved away?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Pennsylvania.

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

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

4. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) The Northeast.
(c) The Southwest.
(d) The Northwest.

5. The unnamed narrator recalls wondering "what it would feel like to push" which character "over the edge" (60) of the abyss?
(a) John.
(b) Dylan.
(c) Laura.
(d) Dominique.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. With which character did the unnamed narrator live in 2002?

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

4. The unnamed narrator states that she realized only later that Artemisia had been "trapped in a" what "of her own design" (27)?

5. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?

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