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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Queens.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Manhattan.

2. In what way are Sharon and Jon, two of the unnamed narrator's friends, acquainted?
(a) They are colleagues.
(b) They are siblings.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are married.

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

4. What event had the narrator and his agent just celebrated with a fancy dinner in Chelsea?
(a) The agent's promotion.
(b) The narrator's newest novel has just been completed.
(c) The narrator's previous novel had been purchased for movie rights.
(d) The narrator's next novel had been a hot commodity among the major publishing houses.

5. From what country did Roberto originally hail?
(a) San Salvador.
(b) Venezuela.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Peru.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator recalls that the poet Wallace Stevens had inspired how many of Bernard's favorite poets, including Bronk?

2. 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)?

3. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?

4. 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)?

5. In what year of college was Alex enrolled when she met the unnamed narrator?

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