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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles, 2017 and San Joaquin Valley, 2017 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what location does the unnamed narrator drive once she leaves her mother's home in Los Angeles, as revealed in the novel's final section?
(a) Home.
(b) Work.
(c) The hospital.
(d) Her son's school.

2. How many other people were interacting with the art exhibition at the same time as the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.

3. What object did the unnamed narrator leave on her mother's table like a "suggestion" (193) at the end of the section entitled Los Angeles, 2017?
(a) A glass of water.
(b) A jump rope.
(c) A bottle of aspirin.
(d) A ring.

4. 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.

5. The unnamed narrator states, "In part I drank to forget" whose "charity" (201)?
(a) Lauras.
(b) Her parents'.
(c) Her ex-husband John's.
(d) Her tall, dark-haired friend's.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator sometimes thinks that "one of the things [Artemisia] was trying to tell her" (27) was the unhappy status of her what?

2. What did the artist do to protest the custody arrangements that had been handed down by the court?

3. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?

4. An excerpt from which famous writer's journal is used as an epigraph for Topics of Conversation?

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

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