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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author notices that Hannah has what color hair, as well as a silver nose ring?
(a) Light brown.
(b) Black.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Red.

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

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

4. What object does the author encounter along his walk that makes him feel as if it is exists "at once in the present and in various pasts" (66)?
(a) A dog.
(b) A broom.
(c) A hay bale.
(d) A gaslight.

5. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author that his next book will involve a woman lying about having which malady?
(a) Multiple sclerosis.
(b) Lupus.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Tuberculosis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. Liza laughingly compares the author to which historical figure once he announces that he will opt for local anesthesia?

4. In what year of college was Alex enrolled when she met the unnamed narrator?

5. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator had planned to use the name Hannah in his novel to represent which of his real acquaintances?

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