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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alex tells the unnamed narrator to remember that he had felt responsible for his mother's diagnosis of what malady?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Heart disease.
(d) Shingles.

2. In what year did the tragedy discussed by the unnamed narrator at the literary event occur?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1991.

3. Liza laughingly compares the author to which historical figure once he announces that he will opt for local anesthesia?
(a) Patton.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Joan of Arc.

4. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?
(a) 38.
(b) 25.
(c) 18.
(d) 70.

5. The distinguished female author tells the unnamed narrator that when she was in the first grade, she openly laughed when given the news that which person had died?
(a) Her teacher's daughter.
(b) Her teacher's son.
(c) Her teacher.
(d) Her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?

2. How do Alena and Peter react to the unnamed narrator's response to the art in Alena's apartment?

3. On what floor of the hospital is the fertility office, where the unnamed narrator is scheduled to give a semen sample?

4. How many minutes of the unnamed narrator's shift at the co-op passes during Noor's story?

5. What object does the author encounter along his walk that makes him feel as if it is exists "at once in the present and in various pasts" (66)?

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