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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Vulnerability.
(c) Affection.
(d) Trust.

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

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

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

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

6. 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) Laura.
(c) The tenant.
(d) The blonde.

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

8. On the wall of the unnamed narrator's childhood home, there is a tabloid clipping picturing which of her family members "on the arm of Rudolph Valentino" (55)?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her second cousin.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her great-grandmother.

9. The unnamed narrator recalls wondering "what it would feel like to push" which character "over the edge" (60) of the abyss?
(a) Laura.
(b) Dominique.
(c) John.
(d) Dylan.

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

11. How does the unnamed narrator describe the temperature of the nighttime air she encountered as she walked home at the end of Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) Hot.
(b) Warm.
(c) Cold.
(d) Balmy.

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

13. In what city do the unnamed narrator's parents live in the house where they raised their daughter?
(a) Fresno.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Boston.
(d) San Francisco.

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

15. 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?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Childhood abuse.
(c) Shame.
(d) Lust.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend visit the art gallery?

2. In which subject did the unnamed narrator major for her undergraduate degree?

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

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