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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 husband.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

2. How did the unnamed narrator describe the movement of her mind during the gathering with other women in Fresno, 2014?
(a) Churning.
(b) Skipping.
(c) Disappearing.
(d) Flowing.

3. When the unnamed narrator tells the group of women about the professor's control of her, she tells a story about what object?
(a) A bottle cap.
(b) A car.
(c) A bed.
(d) A cloud.

4. What job did the unnamed narrator tell the other women belonged to the man with whom she had had an affair?
(a) Dentist.
(b) Street sweeper.
(c) Professor.
(d) Doctor.

5. What position at her college did the unnamed narrator hold during her affair with the married professor?
(a) Event coordinator.
(b) Dean of students.
(c) Resident advisor.
(d) Research assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the unnamed narrator, she realized after leaving John that what element is never "dead and buried" (95)?

2. The unnamed narrator states in San Francisco, 2012 that, "Knowing someone is" how many "parts divination" (74)?

3. On which page of the section entitled San Francisco, 2012 is it revealed that the unnamed narrator and an unnamed man are role-playing?

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

5. When the unnamed narrator tells the story of her one-night stand from the beginning, what type of music drew her into a fancy hotel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What object does the unnamed narrator's mother give to her in the section entitled Los Angeles, 2012 and why?

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

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

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