View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Lust.
(c) Shame.
(d) Childhood abuse.

2. 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 first.
(b) The third.
(c) The tenth.
(d) The eighth.

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

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

5. In which city did the unnamed narrator live when she left for a trip in Italy in the summer of 2000?
(a) New York City.
(b) Carmel.
(c) Sunnyvale.
(d) San Francisco.

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 what discipline was the PhD that the unnamed narrator never finished?

3. How many women were left at the party when the unnamed narrator describes the scene in Ann Arbor, 2002?

4. The unnamed narrator reflects in Los Angeles, 2011 that "every confidence is a kind of" (65) what?

5. What was happening in the unnamed narrator's life when her newly-divorced friend Laura moved in with the unnamed narrator's parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the unnamed narrator view Artemisia during the trip to Italy in 2000 and why?

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

4. What distinction does the unnamed narrator make between "the woman as object" and "the woman as subject" (45)?

5. What was the subject of the Swedish artist's creations, according to the unnnamed narrator?

6. What was the outcome of the tenant's story in the section entitled Ann Arbor, 2002?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,093 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample