View a FREE sample

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) Cloying.
(b) Summery.
(c) Thick.
(d) Wintry.

2. In what way are Sharon and Jon, two of the unnamed narrator's friends, acquainted?
(a) They are siblings.
(b) They are colleagues.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are married.

3. Liza laughingly compares the author to which historical figure once he announces that he will opt for local anesthesia?
(a) Patton.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Napoleon.

4. "The author" (54) inhabits what role in the short story entitled "The Golden Vanity" that acts as the entirety of Part Two of 10:04?
(a) Fool.
(b) Voice of reason.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Protagonist.

5. During the first meeting of Hannah and the author, she explains what term to him that "he'd never heard" (68)?
(a) Mercurochrome.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Pareidolia.
(d) Apoplexy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?

2. What action does the author take in his final comment to Liza during their walk, as he also tells Liza to "shut up" (64)?

3. The unnamed narrator receives an email from Natali saying that her husband had hurt what part of his body in a fall?

4. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?

5. The unnamed narrator recalls the day Alex told him during a walk on Atlantic that which member of her family "had been diagnosed in a late stage" (7)?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 273 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample