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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

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

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

4. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What food from the fancy dinner in Chelsea does the narrator refer to again and again?

2. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?

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?

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

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

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