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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With which character did the unnamed narrator live in 2002?
(a) Camila.
(b) John.
(c) The blonde.
(d) Laura.

2. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) Jodi Picoult.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

4. The unnamed narrator states that she realized only later that Artemisia had been "trapped in a" what "of her own design" (27)?
(a) Carnival.
(b) Closet.
(c) Corridor.
(d) Hedge maze.

5. What tool did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend use to combat their discomfort with a particular element of life?
(a) Joy.
(b) Anger.
(c) Nonchalance.
(d) Humor.

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

7. What did the artist do to protest the custody arrangements that had been handed down by the court?
(a) She hosted a rally.
(b) She moved back to Sweden.
(c) She moved back to Ireland.
(d) She instigated a boycott of her husband's goods.

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

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

10. The unnamed narrator's boyfriend in the summer of 2000 used to be her what?
(a) Her professor.
(b) Her psychologist.
(c) Her high school teacher.
(d) Her doctor.

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

12. An excerpt from which famous writer's journal is used as an epigraph for Topics of Conversation?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) Kate Chopin.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Sylvia Plath.

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

14. What element does the unnamed narrator NOT include within her definition of female pain?
(a) Disassociation.
(b) Subjugation.
(c) Humiliation.
(d) Exploitation.

15. How many brothers did Camila have during the unnamed narrator's trip to Italy in 2000?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women were left at the party when the unnamed narrator describes the scene in Ann Arbor, 2002?

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

3. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?

4. What transgression did the unnamed narrator commit during the time she was trying to conceive a child with her husband?

5. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that Virgilio had committed what crime against her?

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