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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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. The unnamed narrator reveals what detail about her only child in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011?
(a) The child's father is not Jeff.
(b) The child's father is not alive.
(c) The child's father is not John.
(d) The child's father is not Robert.

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

4. At the time of the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2012, the unnamed narrator was which of the following?
(a) Divorced.
(b) Divorced from her second husband.
(c) Single, never having been married.
(d) Married to her first husband.

5. When Laura got a new job in California and her husband Dylan did not want to move, what did they do?
(a) They got a divorce.
(b) They moved to California anyway.
(c) They spent half their time in one place and half in another.
(d) Laura gave up her job opportunity.

6. How many women were left at the party when the unnamed narrator describes the scene in Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

7. From what country did the artist featured in San Francisco, 2010 originally hail?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Denmark.

8. 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) John.
(b) The tenant.
(c) Laura.
(d) The blonde.

9. The final sentence of Ann Arbor, 2002 describes the unnamed narrator's plan to take what action when she gets home?
(a) Read.
(b) Play music.
(c) Eat.
(d) Sleep.

10. Into what type of receptacle did the unnamed narrator urinate in an expression of anger toward John?
(a) A bucket.
(b) A teapot.
(c) A coffee mug.
(d) A trash can.

11. In what discipline was the PhD that the unnamed narrator never finished?
(a) Creative writing.
(b) Film analysis.
(c) Linguistics.
(d) English literature.

12. 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) Blue.
(b) Brown.
(c) Hazel.
(d) Green.

13. The tenant described disliking her acquaintance because she had retained what quality throughout her first few college years?
(a) Originality.
(b) Purity.
(c) Cheerfulness.
(d) Intelligence.

14. How old was the unnamed narrator in the summer of 2000?
(a) 21.
(b) 23.
(c) 17.
(d) 19.

15. The unnamed narrator states in Los Angeles, 2011 that it is "Remarkable how hard it is for women to admit they're" (63) what?
(a) Bored.
(b) Tired.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the unnamed narrator cite as "the Perez family policy" (11)?

2. In what city do the unnamed narrator's parents live in the house where they raised their daughter?

3. In what city did the unnamed narrator fall in love with John?

4. The unnamed narrator asserts that she and her dark-haired friend both loathed what element of life, even as they "understood its necessity" (48)?

5. 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?

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