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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles, 2017 and San Joaquin Valley, 2017 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time of the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2012, the unnamed narrator was which of the following?
(a) Married to her first husband.
(b) Divorced.
(c) Divorced from her second husband.
(d) Single, never having been married.

2. What does the unnamed narrator name as the main incentive that keeps her sober?
(a) Self-respect.
(b) Motherhood.
(c) Financial independence.
(d) Pride.

3. The unnamed narrator states, "In part I drank to forget" whose "charity" (201)?
(a) Her ex-husband John's.
(b) Lauras.
(c) Her parents'.
(d) Her tall, dark-haired friend's.

4. Which of the four women at the gathering featured in Fresno, 2014 is French and South African?
(a) Fran.
(b) Sandra.
(c) Dominque.
(d) The unnamed narrator.

5. An excerpt from which famous writer's journal is used as an epigraph for Topics of Conversation?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Kate Chopin.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the summer of 2000 used to be her what?

2. The unnamed narrator reveals in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2017 that she had not been successful in her pursuit of a job with which company?

3. What kind of people-mover did the unnamed narrator begin to use obsessively during her affair with a married man?

4. What term did the unnamed narrator use to describe the way the professor's control made her feel?

5. The man with whom the narrator had a one-night stand granted which of the unnamed narrator's requests?

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