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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Italy, 2000 and Ann Arbor, 2002.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The first section of the novel Topics of Conversation is set in which month of 2000?
(a) June.
(b) July.
(c) August.
(d) September.

3. The unnamed narrator shouted at Tom and Teo for the first time on which night during her period of working for Camila's family?
(a) The tenth.
(b) The first.
(c) The eighth.
(d) The third.

4. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?
(a) Independence.
(b) Disapproval.
(c) Affection.
(d) Boundaries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many brothers did Camila have during the unnamed narrator's trip to Italy in 2000?

2. In which city did the unnamed narrator live when she left for a trip in Italy in the summer of 2000?

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

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

5. The unnamed narrator sometimes thinks that "one of the things [Artemisia] was trying to tell her" (27) was the unhappy status of her what?

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