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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. What emotion did the unnamed narrator feel when Artemisia finished her story in the section entitled Italy, 2000?
(a) Anger.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Shame.
(d) Pity.

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

3. The unnamed narrator wanted to kiss Artemisia when she found herself overwhelmed by which emotion in the summer of 2000?
(a) Anger.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Lust.
(d) Gratitude.

4. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that she attended which college at the time she dated Virgilio?
(a) Yale.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Sarah Lawrence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The tenant stated that the graduate student dated the undergraduate for how long before he raped her at a party?

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

3. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that most psychologists "theorize the commonality of the so-called rape fantasy among heterosexual women as linked to" (24) what?

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

5. In what capacity did the unnamed narrator work for her friend Camila's family in the summer of 2000?

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