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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through San Francisco, 2010 and Los Angeles 2011 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?
(a) Amorous.
(b) Nostalgic.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Covetous.

2. How does the unnamed narrator describe the temperature of the nighttime air she encountered as she walked home at the end of Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) Warm.
(b) Cold.
(c) Hot.
(d) Balmy.

3. The final sentence of Ann Arbor, 2002 describes the unnamed narrator's plan to take what action when she gets home?
(a) Read.
(b) Eat.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Play music.

4. What was happening in the unnamed narrator's life when her newly-divorced friend Laura moved in with the unnamed narrator's parents?
(a) She was trying to get a new job.
(b) She was going to college.
(c) She was trying to have a baby with her husband.
(d) She and her husband were selling their home.

5. What tool did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend use to combat their discomfort with a particular element of life?
(a) Joy.
(b) Humor.
(c) Anger.
(d) Nonchalance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the unnamed narrator cite as "the Perez family policy" (11)?

2. The unnamed narrator asserts that she and her dark-haired friend both loathed what element of life, even as they "understood its necessity" (48)?

3. In what discipline was the PhD that the unnamed narrator never finished?

4. The unnamed narrator states that she realized only later that Artemisia had been "trapped in a" what "of her own design" (27)?

5. What is NOT a quality the unnamed narrator ascribed to Artemisia during the summer of 2000?

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