1. 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 trying to get a new job.
(b) She and her husband were selling their home.
(c) She was going to college.
(d) She was trying to have a baby with her husband.

2. Which character told the unnamed narrator and others a story in Ann Arbor, 2002 about the rape of an undergraduate by a graduate student?
(a) Laura.
(b) The tenant.
(c) John.
(d) The blonde.

3. When the unnamed narrator discusses a particular short story in the novel's final section, by what term does she refer to the story's author?
(a) The toupee-wearer.
(b) The Marlboro Man.
(c) The comb-over.
(d) The jeans-wearer.

4. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?
(a) Affection.
(b) Boundaries.
(c) Disapproval.
(d) Independence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to the unnamed narrator, she realized after leaving John that what element is never "dead and buried" (95)?

3. In what location does the section entitled Santa Barbara, 2016 open?

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

5. The unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the summer of 2000 used to be her what?

(see the answer key)

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