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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

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

3. Part Two: The Golden Vanity is an excerpt of which character's fictional writing?
(a) The unnamed narrator.
(b) Natali.
(c) Alex.
(d) Bernard.

4. The unnamed narrator states in Part Four that he must have absolute quiet to engage in which activity?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Bathing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Writing.

5. How many people in total have drinks together on the occasion when the author and Hannah first meet?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what type of establishment does the unnamed narrator buy his groceries throughout his residency in Texas?

2. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?

3. How many days after the author's medical procedure does he receive a phone call about his abnormal X-ray telling him to see a neurologist?

4. What is the only element of the physical world that gives the unnamed narrator a feeling of excitement?

5. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?

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