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

2. The unnamed narrator states in Los Angeles, 2011 that it is "Remarkable how hard it is for women to admit they're" (63) what?
(a) Bored.
(b) Tired.
(c) Sad.
(d) Angry.

3. What transgression did the unnamed narrator commit during the time she was trying to conceive a child with her husband?
(a) She stole.
(b) She gossiped.
(c) She cheated.
(d) She lied.

4. The tenant stated that the graduate student dated the undergraduate for how long before he raped her at a party?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

5. The unnamed narrator reveals that she has been married how many times in her life?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend visit the art gallery?

2. How many hours of supervised visitation with her children was the artist given as a result of the custody order?

3. The final sentence of Ann Arbor, 2002 describes the unnamed narrator's plan to take what action when she gets home?

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

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

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