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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For which method of transportation did the unnamed narrator advocate during her discussion with her tall, dark-haired friend?
(a) Riding a train.
(b) Bicycling.
(c) Boating.
(d) Hiring a car.

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

4. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that Virgilio had committed what crime against her?
(a) Attempted murder.
(b) Slander.
(c) Assault.
(d) Theft.

5. 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) Marriage.
(b) Career.
(c) Role as mother.
(d) Life.

6. 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.

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

8. Which member of Camila's family rarely spoke to the unnamed narrator during the trip to Italy in 2000?
(a) Tom.
(b) Camila.
(c) Teo.
(d) Pablo.

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

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

11. How old was the unnamed narrator in the summer of 2000?
(a) 17.
(b) 23.
(c) 19.
(d) 21.

12. At the opening of the section entitled San Francisco, 2010, the first exhibition of what kind of artist was being shown?
(a) Sound.
(b) Music.
(c) Video.
(d) Dance.

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

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

15. 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) The tenant.
(c) The blonde.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In which Italian coastal town did the unnamed narrator spend part of the summer of 2000?

3. Whose literary work was the unnamed narrator reading during the summer of 2000?

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

5. 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)?

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