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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fresno, 2014 and Santa Barbara, 2016 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?
(a) Covetous.
(b) Nostalgic.
(c) Amorous.
(d) Jealous.

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

3. What position at her college did the unnamed narrator hold during her affair with the married professor?
(a) Research assistant.
(b) Event coordinator.
(c) Resident advisor.
(d) Dean of students.

4. In the unnamed narrator's story about liking the professor's methods of domination, she says he had told her not to take what action?
(a) To scream.
(b) To speak.
(c) To move.
(d) To cry.

5. In which season did the unnamed narrator have a discussion with the lawyer who claimed to have abandoned her child?
(a) Fall.
(b) Winter.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the unnamed narrator saw her future one-night stand's face, he grabbed onto what part of her body?

2. What kind of meal did the unnamed narrator eat before she and the man at the hotel had sex?

3. What food was John eating as a part of his health kick when the unnamed narrator told him that it would not improve his sperm count or motility?

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

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

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