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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of media was embedded within the art installation with which the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend interacted?
(a) A video.
(b) A photograph.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A sound recording.

2. In what state did Laura accept a fellowship around the same time the unnamed narrator moved away?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Pennsylvania.

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

4. What kind of school was the unnamed narrator attending when she met her friend Laura?
(a) Art school.
(b) Graduate school.
(c) Community college.
(d) Technical school.

5. The unnamed narrator reflects in Los Angeles, 2011 that "every confidence is a kind of" (65) what?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Lie.
(c) Request.
(d) Plea.

6. The unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend interacted with what type of object at the art exhibition?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A maze.
(c) A gurney.
(d) An airplane.

7. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that she attended which college at the time she dated Virgilio?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Sarah Lawrence.

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

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

10. What does the unnamed narrator cite as "the Perez family policy" (11)?
(a) Vibrance.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Humor.

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

12. 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) Intimacy.
(b) Trust.
(c) Vulnerability.
(d) Affection.

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

14. The unnamed narrator reveals that she has been married how many times in her life?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

15. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) The Northeast.
(b) The Northwest.
(c) The Midwest.
(d) The Southwest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was happening in the unnamed narrator's life when her newly-divorced friend Laura moved in with the unnamed narrator's parents?

3. Into what type of receptacle did the unnamed narrator urinate in an expression of anger toward John?

4. What element does the unnamed narrator NOT include within her definition of female pain?

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

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