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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through San Francisco, 2012 and Los Angeles, 2012.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her great-grandmother.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her second cousin.

2. The unnamed narrator states in San Francisco, 2012 that taking what action is "difficult and painful" (95)?
(a) Apologizing.
(b) Growing.
(c) Pausing.
(d) Starting over.

3. The unnamed narrator reveals what detail about her only child in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011?
(a) The child's father is not Jeff.
(b) The child's father is not John.
(c) The child's father is not alive.
(d) The child's father is not Robert.

4. The unnamed narrator wanted to kiss Artemisia when she found herself overwhelmed by which emotion in the summer of 2000?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Anger.
(c) Lust.
(d) Admiration.

5. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Jodi Picoult.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was happening in the unnamed narrator's life when her newly-divorced friend Laura moved in with the unnamed narrator's parents?

2. Into what type of receptacle did the unnamed narrator urinate in an expression of anger toward John?

3. During the unnamed narrator's adolescence, what is NOT mentioned as an object she and other young women were urged to carry?

4. What adjective does the unnamed narrator now use to describe the face of the man with whom she had a one-night stand?

5. Including the two times per month that the unnamed narrator and John were having sex, how many times per month did she allow him to touch her?

(see the answer key)

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