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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. WIth whom did the lawyer featured in Santa Barbara, 2016 leave her son when she left?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her husband.

2. At which location had Dominique first met Fran, according to the unnamed narrator?
(a) Their apartment building.
(b) School.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) Church.

3. Which of the four women in the group told her story first in the section entitled Fresno, 2014?
(a) Dominique.
(b) Sandra.
(c) Fran.
(d) The unnamed narrator.

4. The unnamed narrator's role-playing partner first takes on the role of a man in what position?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Hedge fund broker.
(d) President.

5. What did the unnamed narrator find out when she visited the fertility doctor to get checked out?
(a) She found out that she had a short ovulation cycle.
(b) She found out she was sterile.
(c) She refused to see the fertility doctor.
(d) She found out she had a blocked fallopian tube.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term did the unnamed narrator use to describe the way the professor's control made her feel?

2. The unnamed narrator continually ate what kind of food throughout the gathering of mothers of infants?

3. What name did the unnamed narrator call herself during her conversation with her one-night stand at the hotel?

4. While the unnamed narrator had a discussion with the lawyer featured in Santa Barbara, 2016, her babysitter had expected her how long ago?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Popkey employ a metaphor to indicate the pain the unnamed narrator caused John with her infidelity?

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

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

4. Discuss at least one negative coping mechanism that the unnamed narrator uses once she has gotten sober.

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

6. Describe the difference between the unnamed narrator's view of therapy in 2014 and her current view.

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

8. What are the contents of the story that the woman in Santa Barbara told the unnamed narrator as they swam in the ocean?

9. For what reason did the unnamed narrator make several attempts to commit adultery before she was successful?

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

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