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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Celebration.
(b) Breath of fresh air.
(c) Travesty.
(d) Memorial.

2. When the unnamed narrator attends a party in Part Four, he finds that the guests in the kitchen are different from the other guests in what way?
(a) They are poets.
(b) They are younger.
(c) They are older.
(d) They are novelists.

3. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?
(a) Tonsil removal.
(b) Wisdom tooth removal.
(c) Gallbladder removal.
(d) Appendectomy.

4. In what magazine was the section of the text entitled Part Two: The Golden Vanity originally published as a short story?
(a) The Atlantic Monthly.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Vogue.
(d) Harper's.

5. In what location do the unnamed narrator and Rick have a conversation after the unnamed narrator's sexual encounter with Alex?
(a) The basement.
(b) The attic.
(c) The screened-in porch.
(d) The solarium.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The inside joke between the unnamed narrator and Alex involves the naming of what event as an elaborate hoax?

3. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?

4. Just after a photograph of an astronaut is presented in Part One, the narrator says that "an unusually large cyclonic system with a warm core was approaching" (16) what location?

5. The unnamed narrator must leave in the middle of Noor's story one day during their shift to check if which item is in stock?

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