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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Infinitesimal.
(c) Giant.
(d) Huge.

2. When the unnamed narrator feels "too tired to write" (173) one day during his residency he watches The Passion of Joan of Arc, the favorite film of which character?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Alena.
(c) Alex.
(d) Natali.

3. The unnamed narrator must leave in the middle of Noor's story one day during their shift to check if which item is in stock?
(a) Figs.
(b) Dried mangoes.
(c) Prunes.
(d) Artichokes.

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) Mercurochrome.
(c) Pareidolia.
(d) Synesthesia.

5. To what hospital does the unnamed narrator go at the beginning of Part Three?
(a) New-York Presbyterian Hospital.
(b) El Camino Hospital.
(c) St. Christopher Hospital.
(d) Kaiser-Permanente Hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the intern take at the party without seeming to realize he is doing it?

2. How do Alena and Peter react to the unnamed narrator's response to the art in Alena's apartment?

3. Alena recently acquired a great deal of what type of art?

4. How does the unnamed narrator react to holding pieces of a sculpture?

5. Roberto tells the unnamed narrator that he has a recurring dream about what future event?

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