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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?
(a) 32.
(b) 29.
(c) 41.
(d) 36.

2. What body of water do Liza and the author reach just before the author says he has decided to opt for local anesthesia?
(a) A bay.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A river.
(d) A lake.

3. The unnamed narrator was recently diagnosed with a defect of what body part?
(a) The liver.
(b) The spine.
(c) The heart.
(d) The kidney.

4. The distinguished female author tells the unnamed narrator that when she was in the first grade, she openly laughed when given the news that which person had died?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her teacher's daughter.
(c) Her teacher's son.
(d) Her teacher.

5. What does the unnamed narrator describe in his comments at Columbia's School of Arts as the "shadow language to Reagan's official narrative processing of the national tragedy" (114)?
(a) Challenger jokes.
(b) Oklahoma City bombing jokes.
(c) My Lai jokes.
(d) Iran Contra jokes.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?

2. At which airport is the unnamed narrator picked up by "Michael, the caretaker of the residency houses" (163)?

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

4. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?

5. One morning, the unnamed narrator wakes up to find that what noisy activity is going on nearby?

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