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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. In what capacity did the unnamed narrator work for her friend Camila's family in the summer of 2000?
(a) Nanny.
(b) Personal assistant.
(c) Concierge.
(d) Cook.

2. The tenant described disliking her acquaintance because she had retained what quality throughout her first few college years?
(a) Cheerfulness.
(b) Originality.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Purity.

3. As the unnamed narrator walked home from the tenant's apartment in Ann Arbor, 2002, she looked forward to drinking what type of alcohol upon arriving home?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Rum.
(c) Bourbon.
(d) Gin.

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

5. 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 tenth.
(c) The third.
(d) The eighth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion did the unnamed narrator feel when Artemisia finished her story in the section entitled Italy, 2000?

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

3. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?

4. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?

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

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