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

2. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?
(a) 32.
(b) 41.
(c) 36.
(d) 29.

3. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.

4. 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)?
(a) A broom.
(b) A gaslight.
(c) A dog.
(d) A hay bale.

5. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?
(a) A kindergartener.
(b) A elderly person.
(c) An infant.
(d) A toddler.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country did Roberto originally hail?

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

3. In what type of establishment is the author waiting for someone at the beginning of Part Two: The Golden Vanity?

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?

5. In what year of college was the unnamed narrator enrolled when he met Alex?

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