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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 criminal record.
(b) Her journals.
(c) Her art.
(d) Her financial records.

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

3. What did the artist do to protest the custody arrangements that had been handed down by the court?
(a) She moved back to Ireland.
(b) She moved back to Sweden.
(c) She instigated a boycott of her husband's goods.
(d) She hosted a rally.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many brothers did Camila have during the unnamed narrator's trip to Italy in 2000?

2. At the time of the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2012, the unnamed narrator was which of the following?

3. Artemisia and Pablo were originally from which country?

4. In what capacity did the unnamed narrator work for her friend Camila's family in the summer of 2000?

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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the epigraph Miranda Popkey includes prior to the start of the novel Topics of Conversation.

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What emotion does the unnamed narrator name as one that is difficult for women to express?

8. For what reason did the unnamed narrator see little of Camila during the trip to Italy?

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

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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