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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) Eat.
(b) Play music.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Read.

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

3. 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?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Gin.
(c) Rum.
(d) Bourbon.

4. The unnamed narrator reflects in Los Angeles, 2011 that "every confidence is a kind of" (65) what?
(a) Request.
(b) Plea.
(c) Manipulation.
(d) Lie.

5. In which subject did the unnamed narrator major for her undergraduate degree?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) English.
(c) French.
(d) Communications.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?

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

4. What element does the unnamed narrator NOT include within her definition of female pain?

5. How many years before the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2010 did the artist divorce her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011, the unnamed narrator describes an act she took with a teapot. What was it?

2. What does the telephone symbolize within the section of the novel entitled Italy, 2000?

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

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

5. Describe the type of humor Popkey often uses within Topics of Conversation and provide an example.

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

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

8. What was the subject of the Swedish artist's creations, according to the unnnamed narrator?

9. How did the unnamed narrator view Artemisia during the trip to Italy in 2000 and why?

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

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