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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. Who suggested the prospect of a game at the gathering featured in Fresno, 2014?
(a) Fran.
(b) Sandra.
(c) The unnamed narrator.
(d) Dominique.

2. The unnamed narrator states that she believed her married lover when he made what promise?
(a) To take the unnamed narrator on vacation.
(b) To let his kids meet the unnamed narrator.
(c) To buy the unnamed narrator a diamond bracelet.
(d) To leave his wife.

3. Before the unnamed narrator saw her future one-night stand's face, he grabbed onto what part of her body?
(a) Her arm.
(b) Her neck.
(c) Her hand.
(d) Her waist.

4. During the unnamed narrator's adolescence, what is NOT mentioned as an object she and other young women were urged to carry?
(a) A knife.
(b) A set of keys.
(c) A can of pepper spray.
(d) A whistle.

5. The man at the hotel told the unnamed narrator that when a woman takes what action, he knows that he must untie her and allow her to leave?
(a) Screams.
(b) Goes silent.
(c) Cries.
(d) Closes her eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective did the unnamed narrator use to describe her husband John in a conversation with her one-night stand?

2. In the unnamed narrator's story about liking the professor's methods of domination, she says he had told her not to take what action?

3. When the section entitled Santa Barbara, 2016 begins, the unnamed narrator describes taking what action with another woman?

4. The unnamed narrator states in San Francisco, 2012 that taking what action is "difficult and painful" (95)?

5. What is NOT one of the feelings the unnamed narrator had toward John after she confessed to her infidelity?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what specific setting does the story told by the unnamed narrator in the section entitled Santa Barbara, 2016 take place?

2. How did the unnamed narrator always feel about the prospect of having a baby?

3. How does the unnamed narrator describe the fertility problems she and John experienced during their marriage?

4. What three feelings does the unnamed narrator recall feeling when John expressed interest in marriage counseling?

5. Discuss the stream-of-consciousness style in which Topics of Conversation is written.

6. What worldview did Fran express during her tirade depicted in Fresno, 2014 and how does the narrator now view Fran's comments?

7. What did the unnamed narrator do for a living during her marriage to John?

8. In what way does the unnamed narrator find her previous view of intimacy problematic?

9. In what way does Popkey purposely mislead the reader at the start of the section called San Francisco, 2012?

10. What act does the unnamed narrator describe as having been attractive due to its promise of "finite pleasure" (180)?

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