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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 sometimes thinks that "one of the things [Artemisia] was trying to tell her" (27) was the unhappy status of her what?
(a) Role as mother.
(b) Career.
(c) Life.
(d) Marriage.

2. What transgression did the unnamed narrator commit during the time she was trying to conceive a child with her husband?
(a) She gossiped.
(b) She cheated.
(c) She lied.
(d) She stole.

3. Artemisia told the unnamed narrator that she attended which college at the time she dated Virgilio?
(a) Sarah Lawrence.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

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

5. One of the artist's exhibitions featured photographs of her recreating poses of which person from her life?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the week did the unnamed narrator and her dark-haired friend visit the art gallery?

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

3. The unnamed narrator describes Artemisia's hair in the summer of 2000 as being what length?

4. The unnamed narrator reveals what detail about her only child in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2011?

5. In what part of the United States did the unnamed narrator attend graduate school, as described in Ann Arbor, 2002?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the unnamed narrator explain her impulse to kiss Artemisia near the end of the section called Italy, 2000?

3. Describe the type of humor Popkey often uses within Topics of Conversation and provide an example.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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