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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 does the unnamed narrator cite as "the Perez family policy" (11)?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Humor.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Vibrance.

2. What is NOT a quality the unnamed narrator ascribed to Artemisia during the summer of 2000?
(a) Untouchable.
(b) Naive.
(c) Wise.
(d) Old.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character told the unnamed narrator and others a story in Ann Arbor, 2002 about the rape of an undergraduate by a graduate student?

2. An excerpt from which famous writer's journal is used as an epigraph for Topics of Conversation?

3. The unnamed narrator states that Artemisia was how old in the summer of 2000?

4. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that she attended which college at the time she dated Virgilio?

5. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?

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