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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. 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 great-grandmother.
(c) Her second cousin.
(d) Her aunt.

2. The unnamed narrator shouted at Tom and Teo for the first time on which night during her period of working for Camila's family?
(a) The tenth.
(b) The eighth.
(c) The third.
(d) The first.

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

4. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?
(a) Chile.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Peru.

5. What element does the unnamed narrator NOT include within her definition of female pain?
(a) Exploitation.
(b) Humiliation.
(c) Subjugation.
(d) Disassociation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Laura said that Dylan's story about his childhood had made her think he was taking what action in regard to intimacy?

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

3. What kind of school was the unnamed narrator attending when she met her now-ex-husband John?

4. 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?

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

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