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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: The Golden Vanity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?
(a) Polpot.
(b) Hitler.
(c) The Tooth Fairy.
(d) Joseph Kony.

2. In what type of establishment is the author waiting for someone at the beginning of Part Two: The Golden Vanity?
(a) A library.
(b) An auto body shop.
(c) A coffee shop.
(d) A taxidermy shop.

3. The unnamed narrator remarks in Part One that the movie Back to the Future was a movie of what type from his youth?
(a) Iconic.
(b) Fun.
(c) Memorable.
(d) Crucial.

4. What object does the author encounter along his walk that makes him feel as if it is exists "at once in the present and in various pasts" (66)?
(a) A dog.
(b) A hay bale.
(c) A gaslight.
(d) A broom.

5. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?
(a) A toddler.
(b) A elderly person.
(c) An infant.
(d) A kindergartener.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state do Natali and Bernard live?

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

3. From what country did Roberto originally hail?

4. How many hours in advance of the author's medical appointment must he call to choose a method of sedation?

5. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator chose to use the name Liza to represent Alex due to what reason?

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