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

2. What kind of school was the unnamed narrator attending when she met her friend Laura?
(a) Graduate school.
(b) Art school.
(c) Technical school.
(d) Community college.

3. From what country did the artist featured in San Francisco, 2010 originally hail?
(a) Sweden.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Denmark.

4. The unnamed narrator describes Artemisia's hair in the summer of 2000 as being what length?
(a) Shaved.
(b) Medium.
(c) Short.
(d) Long.

5. The unnamed narrator wanted to kiss Artemisia when she found herself overwhelmed by which emotion in the summer of 2000?
(a) Lust.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what part of the unnamed narrator's body did Artemisia place her hand, as described at the end of Italy, 2000?

2. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that Virgilio had committed what crime against her?

3. An excerpt from which famous writer's journal is used as an epigraph for Topics of Conversation?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the unnamed narrator feel about society's understanding of "the woman as object" versus "the woman as subject" (45)?

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

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

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

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

6. How does the unnamed narrator feel about the truth and lies, according to her statements in Los Angeles, 2011?

7. 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?

8. What information about the unnamed narrator's romantic life does the reader learn in Italy, 2000?

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

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

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