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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 did the artist's husband use as evidence against her during their custody dispute?
(a) Her art.
(b) Her journals.
(c) Her criminal record.
(d) Her financial records.

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

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

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

5. The first section of the novel Topics of Conversation is set in which month of 2000?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) September.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tool did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend use to combat their discomfort with a particular element of life?

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

3. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?

4. From what country did the artist featured in San Francisco, 2010 originally hail?

5. The unnamed narrator reveals what detail about her only child in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011?

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