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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 walked out to her car with which character after the gathering of mothers had concluded?
(a) Dominique.
(b) Fran.
(c) Sandra.
(d) John.

2. The man with whom the narrator had a one-night stand granted which of the unnamed narrator's requests?
(a) A private phone call.
(b) A massage.
(c) A moment alone.
(d) Room service.

3. Dominique told the unnamed narrator that she was how old when she got pregnant with an older man's child?
(a) 19.
(b) 32.
(c) 25.
(d) 23.

4. While the unnamed narrator had a discussion with the lawyer featured in Santa Barbara, 2016, her babysitter had expected her how long ago?
(a) Weeks.
(b) Hours.
(c) Days.
(d) Minutes.

5. What food did the unnamed narrator consistently eat during John's health kick?
(a) Funyuns.
(b) Chicken wings.
(c) Puffed rice.
(d) Fettuccine.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which location had Dominique first met Fran, according to the unnamed narrator?

2. How does the unnamed narrator describe the motility of John's sperm?

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

4. What position at her college did the unnamed narrator hold during her affair with the married professor?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. For what reason did the unnamed narrator decide not to become friends with Dominique?

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

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

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

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

10. In what way does Popkey suggest that the reader unpack their own reactions to the life events of the woman in Santa Barbara?

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