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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. The unnamed narrator once read that all onscreen what tends to "argue inevitably for itself" (203)?
(a) Love.
(b) Violence.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Death.

2. The unnamed narrator recalls wondering "what it would feel like to push" which character "over the edge" (60) of the abyss?
(a) Dylan.
(b) John.
(c) Laura.
(d) Dominique.

3. What type of transportation did the unnamed narrator start to obsessively use during her affair with a married professor?
(a) Subway.
(b) Motorcycle.
(c) Bicycle.
(d) Horse-drawn carriage.

4. On which page of the section entitled San Francisco, 2012 is it revealed that the unnamed narrator and an unnamed man are role-playing?
(a) The 3rd.
(b) The 13th.
(c) The 2nd.
(d) The 1st.

5. Dominique told the unnamed narrator that she was how old when she got pregnant with an older man's child?
(a) 25.
(b) 23.
(c) 19.
(d) 32.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?

2. In which subject did the unnamed narrator major for her undergraduate degree?

3. At the time of the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2012, the unnamed narrator was which of the following?

4. Which member of Camila's family rarely spoke to the unnamed narrator during the trip to Italy in 2000?

5. How many possible options does the unnamed narrator provide for a particular short story's protagonist at the end of the novel Topics of Conversation?

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