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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?
(a) Disapproval.
(b) Independence.
(c) Boundaries.
(d) Affection.

2. 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 third.
(c) The eighth.
(d) The tenth.

3. With which character did the unnamed narrator live in 2002?
(a) The blonde.
(b) John.
(c) Camila.
(d) Laura.

4. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that most psychologists "theorize the commonality of the so-called rape fantasy among heterosexual women as linked to" (24) what?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Shame.
(c) Childhood abuse.
(d) Lust.

5. What type of media was embedded within the art installation with which the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend interacted?
(a) A photograph.
(b) A sound recording.
(c) A video.
(d) A newspaper.

6. In which Italian coastal town did the unnamed narrator spend part of the summer of 2000?
(a) Otranto.
(b) Rimini.
(c) Scilla.
(d) Sorrento.

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

8. What tool did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend use to combat their discomfort with a particular element of life?
(a) Humor.
(b) Joy.
(c) Nonchalance.
(d) Anger.

9. From what country did the artist featured in San Francisco, 2010 originally hail?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Sweden.

10. What transgression did the unnamed narrator commit during the time she was trying to conceive a child with her husband?
(a) She gossiped.
(b) She stole.
(c) She lied.
(d) She cheated.

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

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

13. The final sentence of Ann Arbor, 2002 describes the unnamed narrator's plan to take what action when she gets home?
(a) Play music.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Read.
(d) Eat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the summer of 2000 used to be her what?

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

4. The unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend interacted with what type of object at the art exhibition?

5. The unnamed narrator reveals that she has been married how many times in her life?

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