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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 what day of the week did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend visit the art gallery?
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Saturday.

2. How old was the unnamed narrator in the summer of 2000?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 23.
(d) 19.

3. The unnamed narrator reflects in Los Angeles, 2011 that "every confidence is a kind of" (65) what?
(a) Lie.
(b) Manipulation.
(c) Request.
(d) Plea.

4. In what city do the unnamed narrator's parents live in the house where they raised their daughter?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Boston.
(c) Fresno.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) The Northeast.
(c) The Southwest.
(d) The Northwest.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When Laura got a new job in California and her husband Dylan did not want to move, what did they do?

4. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that Virgilio had committed what crime against her?

5. In which Italian coastal town did the unnamed narrator spend part of the summer of 2000?

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