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

2. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?
(a) The Sikhs.
(b) The Hassidim.
(c) The Turks.
(d) The shamans.

3. 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?
(a) Many.
(b) A few.
(c) 12.
(d) Two.

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

5. The unnamed narrator receives an email from Natali saying that her husband had hurt what part of his body in a fall?
(a) His ankle.
(b) His leg.
(c) His neck.
(d) His arm.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the light is described in what way?

2. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?

3. Liza is described by the author as having a tendency to "begin an activity" (62) by taking what action?

4. The unnamed narrator was recently diagnosed with a defect of what body part?

5. 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?

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