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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through San Francisco, 2010 and Los Angeles 2011 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. On the wall of the unnamed narrator's childhood home, there is a tabloid clipping picturing which of her family members "on the arm of Rudolph Valentino" (55)?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her second cousin.
(d) Her great-grandmother.

3. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) The Northeast.
(b) The Northwest.
(c) The Southwest.
(d) The Midwest.

4. Into what type of receptacle did the unnamed narrator urinate in an expression of anger toward John?
(a) A bucket.
(b) A teapot.
(c) A trash can.
(d) A coffee mug.

5. In what discipline was the PhD that the unnamed narrator never finished?
(a) Film analysis.
(b) Creative writing.
(c) English literature.
(d) Linguistics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women were left at the party when the unnamed narrator describes the scene in Ann Arbor, 2002?

2. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?

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

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

5. What transgression did the unnamed narrator commit during the time she was trying to conceive a child with her husband?

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