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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Tired.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Bored.

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

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

4. Artemisia's advice to the unnamed narrator was that children crave what?
(a) Affection.
(b) Boundaries.
(c) Disapproval.
(d) Independence.

5. The unnamed narrator shouted at Tom and Teo for the first time on which night during her period of working for Camila's family?
(a) The eighth.
(b) The first.
(c) The third.
(d) The tenth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What emotion did the unnamed narrator feel when Artemisia finished her story in the section entitled Italy, 2000?
(a) Shame.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Pity.
(d) Anger.

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

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) Lust.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Childhood abuse.
(d) Shame.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With which character did the unnamed narrator live in 2002?

3. When Laura got a new job in California and her husband Dylan did not want to move, what did they do?

4. How many years before the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2010 did the artist divorce her husband?

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

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