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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does the author take in his final comment to Liza during their walk, as he also tells Liza to "shut up" (64)?
(a) He frowns.
(b) He sighs.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He shoves her.

2. The scene at the bar in Part Two: The Golden Vanity transitions to a scene in which the author appears to speak with which character?
(a) Dr. Roberts.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Liza.
(d) Mary.

3. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His agent.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His sister.

4. How does the unnamed narrator react to holding pieces of a sculpture?
(a) He is silent.
(b) He cries.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He is disgusted.

5. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?
(a) Von's.
(b) Whole Foods.
(c) Alpha Beta.
(d) Kroger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alex cautions the unnamed narrator in Part Three not to write about what kinds of issues?

2. The unnamed narrator recalls the day Alex told him during a walk on Atlantic that which member of her family "had been diagnosed in a late stage" (7)?

3. How many hours in advance of the author's medical appointment must he call to choose a method of sedation?

4. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?

5. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?

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