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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) Heart disease.
(b) Shingles.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Cancer.

2. When the unnamed narrator attending the private showing of a particular artist's works, he says, "The works felt first and foremost like a" (179) what?
(a) Travesty.
(b) Celebration.
(c) Memorial.
(d) Breath of fresh air.

3. To what hospital does the unnamed narrator go at the beginning of Part Three?
(a) New-York Presbyterian Hospital.
(b) Kaiser-Permanente Hospital.
(c) St. Christopher Hospital.
(d) El Camino Hospital.

4. The unnamed narrator states that "the most riveting and disturbing and particular passages" of his one book "are about" (166) which topic?
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The French-Indian War.
(d) World War I.

5. At what location does the author always meet Liza to begin their walks?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Prospect Park.
(c) Grand Army Plaza.
(d) The east side of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Liza laughingly compares the author to which historical figure once he announces that he will opt for local anesthesia?

2. Who pays the whole bill for everyone's dinner at Cochineal in Part Four?

3. In what magazine was the section of the text entitled Part Two: The Golden Vanity originally published as a short story?

4. To whose apartment does the unnamed narrator go after he leaves the literary dinner in Part Three?

5. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?

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