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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. One of the artist's exhibitions featured photographs of her recreating poses of which person from her life?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her brother.
2. How many brothers did Camila have during the unnamed narrator's trip to Italy in 2000?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.
3. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that Virgilio had committed what crime against her?
(a) Theft.
(b) Assault.
(c) Attempted murder.
(d) Slander.
4. How does the unnamed narrator describe the temperature of the nighttime air she encountered as she walked home at the end of Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) Hot.
(b) Balmy.
(c) Warm.
(d) Cold.
5. 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) Nonchalance.
(c) Anger.
(d) Joy.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which character told the unnamed narrator and others a story in Ann Arbor, 2002 about the rape of an undergraduate by a graduate student?
2. When Laura got a new job in California and her husband Dylan did not want to move, what did they do?
3. At the opening of the section entitled San Francisco, 2010, the first exhibition of what kind of artist was being shown?
4. How many hours of supervised visitation with her children was the artist given as a result of the custody order?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason does the unnamed narrator use a hedge maze as a metaphor for Artemisia's life?
2. How did the unnamed narrator view Artemisia during the trip to Italy in 2000 and why?
3. What was the subject of the Swedish artist's creations, according to the unnnamed narrator?
4. Discuss a moment in the novel when the unnamed narrator hints or states outright that she may be an unreliable narrator.
5. How does the unnamed narrator feel about society's understanding of "the woman as object" versus "the woman as subject" (45)?
6. For what reason was the narrator in Italy in the summer of 2000?
7. How does the unnamed narrator feel about the truth and lies, according to her statements in Los Angeles, 2011?
8. At the end of the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011, the unnamed narrator describes an act she took with a teapot. What was it?
9. Discuss the epigraph Miranda Popkey includes prior to the start of the novel Topics of Conversation.
10. In what way does Popkey send a message about the dangers of complying with patriarchy-fueled gender norms in the section entitled Ann Arbor, 2002?
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