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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?
(a) 29.
(b) 36.
(c) 32.
(d) 41.

2. Roberto tells the unnamed narrator that he has a recurring dream about what future event?
(a) Another ice age.
(b) The Second Coming of Christ.
(c) California sinking into the sea.
(d) The second Big Bang.

3. The unnamed narrator receives an email from Natali saying that her husband had hurt what part of his body in a fall?
(a) His leg.
(b) His ankle.
(c) His arm.
(d) His neck.

4. The unnamed narrator recalls that the poet Wallace Stevens had inspired how many of Bernard's favorite poets, including Bronk?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?

3. In what city is the novel 10:04 set?

4. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?

5. 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)?

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