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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. The unnamed narrator recalls his class writing letters to which historical figure when he was 7 years old at Randolph Elementary School?
(a) Evel Knievel.
(b) Christa McAuliffe.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Baby Jessica.

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

3. Liz tells the author that he will "do the twilight-sedation thing because" (64) he is a what?
(a) A scaredy cat.
(b) A trainwreck.
(c) A loser.
(d) A weakling.

4. What food from the fancy dinner in Chelsea does the narrator refer to again and again?
(a) Eel.
(b) Octopus.
(c) Tuna.
(d) Shark.

5. Part Two: The Golden Vanity is an excerpt of which character's fictional writing?
(a) The unnamed narrator.
(b) Alex.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Natali.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?

2. At what location does the author always meet Liza to begin their walks?

3. The unnamed narrator remarks in Part One that the movie Back to the Future was a movie of what type from his youth?

4. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?

5. 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?

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