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

2. With which character did the unnamed narrator live in 2002?
(a) The blonde.
(b) John.
(c) Laura.
(d) Camila.

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

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

5. 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) Rum.
(b) Gin.
(c) Bourbon.
(d) Vodka.

Short Answer Questions

1. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?

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

3. The unnamed narrator states in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011 that she dislikes discussing which subject?

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. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that most psychologists "theorize the commonality of the so-called rape fantasy among heterosexual women as linked to" (24) what?

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