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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city did the unnamed narrator fall in love with John?
(a) San Diego.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Philadelphia.

2. What kind of school was the unnamed narrator attending when she met her now-ex-husband John?
(a) Art school.
(b) Community college.
(c) Technical school.
(d) Graduate school.

3. One of the artist's exhibitions featured photographs of her recreating poses of which person from her life?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

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)?
(a) Affection.
(b) Intimacy.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Trust.

5. What transgression did the unnamed narrator commit during the time she was trying to conceive a child with her husband?
(a) She gossiped.
(b) She stole.
(c) She cheated.
(d) She lied.

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

7. The unnamed narrator wanted to kiss Artemisia when she found herself overwhelmed by which emotion in the summer of 2000?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Anger.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Lust.

8. The unnamed narrator describes Artemisia's hair in the summer of 2000 as being what length?
(a) Medium.
(b) Short.
(c) Shaved.
(d) Long.

9. The unnamed narrator sometimes thinks that "one of the things [Artemisia] was trying to tell her" (27) was the unhappy status of her what?
(a) Role as mother.
(b) Career.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Life.

10. In which city did the unnamed narrator live when she left for a trip in Italy in the summer of 2000?
(a) Carmel.
(b) Sunnyvale.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York City.

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

12. Laura said that Dylan's story about his childhood had made her think he was taking what action in regard to intimacy?
(a) Opening a door.
(b) Closing a window.
(c) Opening a window.
(d) Closing a door.

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

14. The tenant stated that the graduate student dated the undergraduate for how long before he raped her at a party?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator reveals that she has been married how many times in her life?

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

3. The unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend interacted with what type of object at the art exhibition?

4. How many other people were interacting with the art exhibition at the same time as the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend?

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

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