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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

3. How many months before the agent and the narrator's fancy dinner in Chelsea did the agent tell him she thought he could 'get a strong six-figure' advance based on a story" (3) he had written for the New Yorker?
(a) Two.
(b) 12.
(c) Many.
(d) A few.

4. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His sister.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His agent.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?

4. 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)?

5. The unnamed narrator and Alex are looking at a painting of which historical figure when she asks him to provide the sperm for her child?

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