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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. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the heat is described in what way?
(a) Thick.
(b) Wintry.
(c) Summery.
(d) Cloying.

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

3. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Queens.
(d) The Bronx.

4. For whom is the author waiting at the start of Part Two: The Golden Vanity, which is composed of a short story written by the fictional unnamed narrator?
(a) An attorney.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A student.
(d) A librarian.

5. The unnamed narrator was recently diagnosed with a defect of what body part?
(a) The liver.
(b) The spine.
(c) The heart.
(d) The kidney.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. On what day of the week is the author scheduled to have a medical procedure done?

3. 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)?

4. How many images in total are presented within Part One of 10:04?

5. How many months before the agent and the narrator's fancy dinner in Chelsea did the agent tell him she thought he could 'get a strong six-figure' advance based on a story" (3) he had written for the New Yorker?

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