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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 broom.
(b) A gaslight.
(c) A dog.
(d) A hay bale.

2. In what field does Alena's friend Peter work?
(a) Marketing.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Art.
(d) Literature.

3. What is the only element of the physical world that gives the unnamed narrator a feeling of excitement?
(a) Built space.
(b) The sky.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The natural world.

4. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?
(a) The doctor was exaggerating.
(b) The doctor was pulling a prank.
(c) The doctor was minimizing.
(d) The doctor was a figment of the author's imagination.

5. When the unnamed narrator rises for his first full day in Marfa, he finds his face covered in what substance?
(a) Flour.
(b) Makeup.
(c) Blood.
(d) Paint.

Short Answer Questions

1. Liza tells the author that he would save how many dollars by opting for local anesthesia?

2. To whose apartment does the unnamed narrator go after he leaves the literary dinner in Part Three?

3. How old is the unnamed narrator in narrative present?

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

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

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