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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. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His sister.
(c) His agent.
(d) His best friend.

2. The unnamed narrator recalls that the poet Wallace Stevens had inspired how many of Bernard's favorite poets, including Bronk?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

4. From what country did Roberto originally hail?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) San Salvador.
(c) Peru.
(d) Cuba.

5. 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) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "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?

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

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

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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