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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. What tool did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend use to combat their discomfort with a particular element of life?
(a) Nonchalance.
(b) Humor.
(c) Anger.
(d) Joy.

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

3. At the end of the section entitled San Francisco 2010, the unnamed narrator recalls having forgotten that her dark-haired friend had eyes of what color?
(a) Hazel.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Blue.

4. What was happening in the unnamed narrator's life when her newly-divorced friend Laura moved in with the unnamed narrator's parents?
(a) She was going to college.
(b) She was trying to have a baby with her husband.
(c) She and her husband were selling their home.
(d) She was trying to get a new job.

5. The unnamed narrator describes Artemisia's hair in the summer of 2000 as being what length?
(a) Medium.
(b) Long.
(c) Shaved.
(d) Short.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The first section of the novel Topics of Conversation is set in which month of 2000?

3. In what capacity did the unnamed narrator work for her friend Camila's family in the summer of 2000?

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

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

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