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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Liza is described by the author as having a tendency to "begin an activity" (62) by taking what action?
(a) Enlisting others to help.
(b) Listing its dangers.
(c) Listing its pros and cons.
(d) Claiming that she would have no part in it.

2. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?
(a) Queens.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. The unnamed narrator and Alex are looking at a painting of which historical figure when she asks him to provide the sperm for her child?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Napoleon.

4. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?
(a) 25.
(b) 70.
(c) 38.
(d) 18.

5. What is NOT a year named within the author's mention of "various pasts" (66) being connected by a single object?
(a) 2012.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1883.
(d) 2016.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way are Sharon and Jon, two of the unnamed narrator's friends, acquainted?

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

3. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?

4. The unnamed narrator brings a single book written by which author along with him for the period of his residency?

5. When the unnamed narrator attending the private showing of a particular artist's works, he says, "The works felt first and foremost like a" (179) what?

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