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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. The unnamed narrator reflects in Los Angeles, 2011 that "every confidence is a kind of" (65) what?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Request.
(c) Plea.
(d) Lie.

2. How does the unnamed narrator describe the temperature of the nighttime air she encountered as she walked home at the end of Ann Arbor, 2002?
(a) Warm.
(b) Cold.
(c) Hot.
(d) Balmy.

3. 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) Lust.
(b) Childhood abuse.
(c) Shame.
(d) Hatred.

4. In what city did the unnamed narrator fall in love with John?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) San Diego.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) San Francisco.

5. On what day of the week did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend visit the art gallery?
(a) Friday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Saturday.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years before the art exhibition described in San Francisco, 2010 did the artist divorce her husband?

2. How many hours of supervised visitation with her children was the artist given as a result of the custody order?

3. Laura told the unnamed narrator that for a man, "telling people what you want makes you" (60) what?

4. What emotion did the unnamed narrator feel when Artemisia finished her story in the section entitled Italy, 2000?

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

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

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

4. What is the main setting featured within the section entitled San Francisco, 2010?

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

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

7. Describe the interactive element of the Swedish artist's exhibition.

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

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

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

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