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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term had George's mother used to describe the chances of Francesco having been a female artist?
(a) Fat.
(b) Slim.
(c) Nil.
(d) Nada.

2. How does George respond to H's romantic gesture?
(a) She says she needs time to think.
(b) She says she is not ready.
(c) She does not respond.
(d) She says she is straight.

3. In what city does George currently live with her father and her brother Henry?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Nice.
(d) Lisbon.

4. What is George's mother doing in the video from her childhood in which she appears with her own mother?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Playing the trombone.
(d) Crying.

5. Which piece of information did George's mother forget during their visit to the museum, causing George to want to look it up on her mother's phone?
(a) Francesco's name.
(b) Leonardo's name.
(c) Michelangelo's name.
(d) Cosmo's name.

6. What objects were always embedded in the stationery George's mother provided for the family's New Year's ritual?
(a) Orange peels.
(b) Bark.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Flower petals.

7. The streets of the Italian town in which the museum lies are "full of people" (214) using which two forms of transportation?
(a) Walking and riding bicycles.
(b) Mopeds and bicycles.
(c) Buses and trains.
(d) Walking and driving cars.

8. George's mother had been what kind of a subversive character prior to her death?
(a) A political cartoonist.
(b) An anarchist.
(c) A feminist cheerleader.
(d) A war protester.

9. The fourth sentence of Camera states, "George's mother is" (163) what?
(a) Dying.
(b) Dead.
(c) Here.
(d) Angry.

10. The conversation portrayed at the start of Camera takes place in which month?
(a) May.
(b) January.
(c) June.
(d) February.

11. By the time George tells Mrs. Rock about her surveillance theory, how many years have passed since George's mother's altercation with a politician?
(a) 1.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

12. In what month had George, Henry, and their mother eaten dinner near the castle in Italy?
(a) January.
(b) June.
(c) May.
(d) April.

13. George's mother told George that Lisa's attention had turned from flattering to what?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Obsessive.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Scary.

14. What had H done to a phone in retaliation when one of the young women in the school bathroom called her an "ethnic cow" (224)?
(a) She threw the phone in the toilet.
(b) She called the young woman's mother.
(c) She broke the phone against the front of the toilet.
(d) She threw the phone onto the roof.

15. At what time of the morning does H knock on George's door on New Year's Day, the first time she visits her home?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) Half past 4.
(d) Half past 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many minutes at a time is George usually able to watch the pornographic video in her daily ritual?

2. George's mother had told George about a female Renaissance painter with what name?

3. What adjective does Henry use to describe the room at the museum where Francesco's painting is hung?

4. What word did George look up when she grabbed her mother's dictionary from her office shelf?

5. During H's third visit to George's house, George asks H if she thinks that dead people have what?

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