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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator chose to use the name Liza to represent Alex due to what reason?
(a) It had been the name of her beloved grandmother.
(b) It had been the name of her deceased little sister.
(c) It had been her father's second choice for her name.
(d) It had been her mother's second choice for her name.

2. What does the unnamed narrator describe in his comments at Columbia's School of Arts as the "shadow language to Reagan's official narrative processing of the national tragedy" (114)?
(a) Oklahoma City bombing jokes.
(b) Challenger jokes.
(c) Iran Contra jokes.
(d) My Lai jokes.

3. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?
(a) The Smithsonian.
(b) The Metropolitan Museum.
(c) MOMA.
(d) The Guggenheim.

4. During the first meeting of Hannah and the author, she explains what term to him that "he'd never heard" (68)?
(a) Apoplexy.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Pareidolia.
(d) Mercurochrome.

5. In what state do Natali and Bernard live?
(a) Delaware.
(b) New York.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body of water do Liza and the author reach just before the author says he has decided to opt for local anesthesia?

2. Looking at what sight always gives the unnamed narrator a "small thrill" (107)?

3. 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?

4. What is the name of the unnamed narrator's friend who teaches third grade at a "dual-language school in Sunset Park" (10)?

5. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?

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