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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author that his next book will involve a woman lying about having which malady?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Multiple sclerosis.
(d) Lupus.

4. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?
(a) Giant.
(b) Tiny.
(c) Huge.
(d) Infinitesimal.

5. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. What three words of advice does the distinguished female author give to the unnamed narrator after they hug their goodbyes?

2. When the unnamed narrator returns to hear the rest of Noor's story, how many minutes must he wait while everyone else stops listening?

3. The unnamed narrator states in Part Three that he had been talking about his "performance anxiety with Jon and Sharon and Alena" (89) for how many weeks prior to his appointment to give a semen sample?

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

5. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?

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