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

2. How many women were left at the party when the unnamed narrator describes the scene in Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

3. The unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the summer of 2000 used to be her what?
(a) Her professor.
(b) Her high school teacher.
(c) Her psychologist.
(d) Her doctor.

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

5. The unnamed narrator states that she realized only later that Artemisia had been "trapped in a" what "of her own design" (27)?
(a) Carnival.
(b) Corridor.
(c) Closet.
(d) Hedge maze.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what part of the unnamed narrator's body did Artemisia place her hand, as described at the end of Italy, 2000?

2. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?

3. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?

4. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?

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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