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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 year of college was Alex enrolled when she met the unnamed narrator?
(a) Freshman.
(b) Junior.
(c) Senior.
(d) Sophomore.

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

3. Just after a photograph of an astronaut is presented in Part One, the narrator says that "an unusually large cyclonic system with a warm core was approaching" (16) what location?
(a) The West coast.
(b) New York City.
(c) Boston.
(d) The East coast.

4. 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?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Napoleon.

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) Podcast.
(b) Television.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Radio.

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

3. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?

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

5. From what country did Roberto originally hail?

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