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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. 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)?
(a) Television.
(b) Newspaper.
(c) Podcast.
(d) Radio.

2. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 800.
(c) 600.
(d) 1,200.

3. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum.
(b) The Smithsonian.
(c) The Guggenheim.
(d) MOMA.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the scene of the first meeting of Hannah and the author comes to an end, what is included just prior to the page break?

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

3. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator had planned to use the name Josh in his novel to represent which of his real acquaintances?

4. Part Two: The Golden Vanity is an excerpt of which character's fictional writing?

5. 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?

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