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

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) Cancer.
(c) Shingles.
(d) Tuberculosis.

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

3. When the unnamed narrator and the distinguished female author hit it off at the literary dinner, what dessert do they share?
(a) Peach pie.
(b) Tiramisu.
(c) Chocolate crickets.
(d) A chocolate tart.

4. When the scene of the first meeting of Hannah and the author comes to an end, what is included just prior to the page break?
(a) A chart.
(b) An image.
(c) A poem.
(d) A newspaper article.

5. Once Alex and the unnamed narrator make it to Alex's apartment, they hear through what medium that "the storm would make landfall around 4:00 a.m." (20)?
(a) Radio.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Television.
(d) Podcast.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator was recently diagnosed with a defect of what body part?

2. Alena puts the pieces of a shattered sculpture by which artist into the unnamed narrator's hands?

3. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?

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

5. What is the only element of the physical world that gives the unnamed narrator a feeling of excitement?

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