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

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

3. The tenant stated that the graduate student dated the undergraduate for how long before he raped her at a party?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 months.

4. 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 first.
(b) The eighth.
(c) The tenth.
(d) The third.

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?
(a) Life.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Career.
(d) Role as mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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