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

2. How does the unnamed narrator describe the temperature of the nighttime air she encountered as she walked home at the end of Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) Warm.
(b) Hot.
(c) Cold.
(d) Balmy.

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

4. In what city do the unnamed narrator's parents live in the house where they raised their daughter?
(a) Fresno.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Boston.

5. In which Italian coastal town did the unnamed narrator spend part of the summer of 2000?
(a) Scilla.
(b) Otranto.
(c) Sorrento.
(d) Rimini.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator sometimes thinks that "one of the things [Artemisia] was trying to tell her" (27) was the unhappy status of her what?

3. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?

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

5. The unnamed narrator recalls wondering "what it would feel like to push" which character "over the edge" (60) of the abyss?

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