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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. 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?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York City.
(c) The East coast.
(d) The West coast.

2. 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 student.
(c) A librarian.
(d) A doctor.

3. What event had the narrator and his agent just celebrated with a fancy dinner in Chelsea?
(a) The narrator's next novel had been a hot commodity among the major publishing houses.
(b) The narrator's newest novel has just been completed.
(c) The agent's promotion.
(d) The narrator's previous novel had been purchased for movie rights.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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)?

3. The unnamed narrator recalls that the poet Wallace Stevens had inspired how many of Bernard's favorite poets, including Bronk?

4. Liz tells the author that he will "do the twilight-sedation thing because" (64) he is a what?

5. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?

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