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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 12.
(c) A few.
(d) Two.

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) 4.
(d) 2.

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

4. When the unnamed narrator attends a party in Part Four, he finds that the guests in the kitchen are different from the other guests in what way?
(a) They are poets.
(b) They are novelists.
(c) They are older.
(d) They are younger.

5. The unnamed narrator remarks in Part One that the movie Back to the Future was a movie of what type from his youth?
(a) Fun.
(b) Crucial.
(c) Iconic.
(d) Memorable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body of water do Liza and the author reach just before the author says he has decided to opt for local anesthesia?

2. 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)?

3. After the art showing, when the unnamed narrator goes to dinner at Cochineal, which character gets interrupted each time he tries to contribute to the conversation?

4. For whom is the author waiting at the start of Part Two: The Golden Vanity, which is composed of a short story written by the fictional unnamed narrator?

5. Which element of the physical world never gives the unnamed narrator a "little thrill" (107)?

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