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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator reveals that she has been married how many times in her life?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

4. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that she attended which college at the time she dated Virgilio?
(a) Sarah Lawrence.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Columbia.

5. 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 eighth.
(b) The third.
(c) The first.
(d) The tenth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator states in Los Angeles, 2011 that it is "Remarkable how hard it is for women to admit they're" (63) what?

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

3. Into what type of receptacle did the unnamed narrator urinate in an expression of anger toward John?

4. On what part of the unnamed narrator's body did Artemisia place her hand, as described at the end of Italy, 2000?

5. What transgression did the unnamed narrator commit during the time she was trying to conceive a child with her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the epigraph Miranda Popkey includes prior to the start of the novel Topics of Conversation.

2. What distinction does the unnamed narrator make between "the woman as object" and "the woman as subject" (45)?

3. Discuss an instance when Popkey uses the second person point of view to connect with the reader.

4. What was the outcome of the tenant's story in the section entitled Ann Arbor, 2002?

5. How does the unnamed narrator feel about the truth and lies, according to her statements in Los Angeles, 2011?

6. Discuss a moment in the novel when the unnamed narrator hints or states outright that she may be an unreliable narrator.

7. What information about the unnamed narrator's romantic life does the reader learn in Italy, 2000?

8. For what reason does the unnamed narrator use a hedge maze as a metaphor for Artemisia's life?

9. For what reason was the narrator in Italy in the summer of 2000?

10. What is the main setting featured within the section entitled San Francisco, 2010?

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