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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the artist's husband use as evidence against her during their custody dispute?
(a) Her financial records.
(b) Her art.
(c) Her journals.
(d) Her criminal record.

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

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

4. The unnamed narrator states that Artemisia was how old in the summer of 2000?
(a) 52.
(b) 55.
(c) 38.
(d) 44.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator say it makes her feel when someone tells her "a story, a secret, a sharing of confidence" (27)?

2. What type of media was embedded within the art installation with which the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend interacted?

3. Which member of Camila's family rarely spoke to the unnamed narrator during the trip to Italy in 2000?

4. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?

5. What did the artist do to protest the custody arrangements that had been handed down by the court?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss a moment in the novel when the unnamed narrator hints or states outright that she may be an unreliable narrator.

2. What does the telephone symbolize within the section of the novel entitled Italy, 2000?

3. For what reason was the narrator in Italy in the summer of 2000?

4. How does the unnamed narrator define "female pain" (43) and what expertise does she have in this subject?

5. Describe the four characters featured at the center of the gathering in Ann Arbor, 2002.

6. How did the unnamed narrator feel about the dissolution of Laura's marriage?

7. At the end of the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011, the unnamed narrator describes an act she took with a teapot. What was it?

8. For what reason does the unnamed narrator use a hedge maze as a metaphor for Artemisia's life?

9. Discuss an instance when Popkey uses the second person point of view to connect with the reader.

10. In what way does Popkey send a message about the dangers of complying with patriarchy-fueled gender norms in the section entitled Ann Arbor, 2002?

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