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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many images in total are presented within Part One of 10:04?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

3. 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) Alpha Beta.
(c) Whole Foods.
(d) Von's.

4. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?
(a) The Turks.
(b) The Hassidim.
(c) The shamans.
(d) The Sikhs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Roberto tells the unnamed narrator that he has a recurring dream about what future event?

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

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

4. 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)?

5. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?

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