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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The tenant stated that the graduate student dated the undergraduate for how long before he raped her at a party?
2. On the wall of the unnamed narrator's childhood home, there is a tabloid clipping picturing which of her family members "on the arm of Rudolph Valentino" (55)?
3. What did the artist do to protest the custody arrangements that had been handed down by the court?
4. What did the artist's husband use as evidence against her during their custody dispute?
5. From what country did the artist featured in San Francisco, 2010 originally hail?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the unnamed narrator define "female pain" (43) and what expertise does she have in this subject?
2. How does the unnamed narrator explain her impulse to kiss Artemisia near the end of the section called Italy, 2000?
3. How did the unnamed narrator feel about the dissolution of Laura's marriage?
4. Describe the interactive element of the Swedish artist's exhibition.
5. Discuss the epigraph Miranda Popkey includes prior to the start of the novel Topics of Conversation.
6. What information about the unnamed narrator's romantic life does the reader learn in Italy, 2000?
7. Discuss an instance when Popkey uses the second person point of view to connect with the reader.
8. Describe the type of humor Popkey often uses within Topics of Conversation and provide an example.
9. What was the outcome of the tenant's story in the section entitled Ann Arbor, 2002?
10. How does the unnamed narrator feel about the truth and lies, according to her statements in Los Angeles, 2011?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Popkey’s messages concerning the nature of security. Does the text indicate that it is dangerous or crucial? Choose one adjective and prove its validity using concrete details from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Popkey begins the text with an excerpt from a journal entry written by Sylvia Plath. Explain how this poem excerpt relates to the text and how it reflects the text’s themes.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Popkey’s novel Topics of Conversation. What message is Popkey sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
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