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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. How old was the unnamed narrator in the summer of 2000?
(a) 23.
(b) 17.
(c) 19.
(d) 21.
2. The unnamed narrator states in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011 that she dislikes discussing which subject?
(a) Her political beliefs.
(b) Her childhood.
(c) Her religious beliefs.
(d) Her parents.
3. How many hours of supervised visitation with her children was the artist given as a result of the custody order?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.
4. When Laura got a new job in California and her husband Dylan did not want to move, what did they do?
(a) They spent half their time in one place and half in another.
(b) They moved to California anyway.
(c) Laura gave up her job opportunity.
(d) They got a divorce.
5. Laura said that Dylan's story about his childhood had made her think he was taking what action in regard to intimacy?
(a) Opening a door.
(b) Opening a window.
(c) Closing a window.
(d) Closing a door.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was happening in the unnamed narrator's life when her newly-divorced friend Laura moved in with the unnamed narrator's parents?
2. Into what type of receptacle did the unnamed narrator urinate in an expression of anger toward John?
3. What kind of school was the unnamed narrator attending when she met her friend Laura?
4. The unnamed narrator sometimes thinks that "one of the things [Artemisia] was trying to tell her" (27) was the unhappy status of her what?
5. As the unnamed narrator walked home from the tenant's apartment in Ann Arbor, 2002, she looked forward to drinking what type of alcohol upon arriving home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the telephone symbolize within the section of the novel entitled Italy, 2000?
2. What distinction does the unnamed narrator make between "the woman as object" and "the woman as subject" (45)?
3. What was the subject of the Swedish artist's creations, according to the unnnamed narrator?
4. Discuss an instance when Popkey uses the second person point of view to connect with the reader.
5. What was the outcome of the tenant's story in the section entitled Ann Arbor, 2002?
6. For what reason was the narrator in Italy in the summer of 2000?
7. Describe the interactive element of the Swedish artist's exhibition.
8. For what reason does the unnamed narrator use a hedge maze as a metaphor for Artemisia's life?
9. Discuss the epigraph Miranda Popkey includes prior to the start of the novel Topics of Conversation.
10. How does the unnamed narrator explain her impulse to kiss Artemisia near the end of the section called Italy, 2000?
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