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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 states in San Francisco, 2012 that taking what action is "difficult and painful" (95)?
(a) Pausing.
(b) Growing.
(c) Starting over.
(d) Apologizing.

2. In which season did the unnamed narrator have a discussion with the lawyer who claimed to have abandoned her child?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

3. What pseudonym did the unnamed narrator use when she told the other women about her affair with a married professor?
(a) Jeff.
(b) Edward.
(c) Jake.
(d) John.

4. In what period of time was the unnamed narrator an adolescent?
(a) The early Eighties.
(b) The early Nineties.
(c) The late Eighties.
(d) The late Nineties.

5. The unnamed narrator states in San Francisco, 2012 that, "Knowing someone is" how many "parts divination" (74)?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name did the unnamed narrator call herself in the bathroom at the gathering after she thought disparagingly about Sandra's story?

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

3. What kind of new lifestyle was John beginning at the time discussed in San Francisco, 2012?

4. The unnamed narrator complained to her role-playing partner that he sounded like a movie made by which director?

5. What type of beverage did the unnamed narrator consider throwing out the window at the end of Los Angeles, 2012?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When the identity of the father of the unnamed narrator's child is finally revealed, who is it?

5. What is the setting of the section entitled Fresno, 2014 and which three new characters are introduced?

6. What method did the unnamed narrator eventually use to end her marriage and why?

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

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

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

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

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