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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) Travesty.
(c) Breath of fresh air.
(d) Memorial.

2. "The distinguished female author" (119) sitting across from the unnamed narrator at the literary dinner compliments him on what?
(a) His smile.
(b) His tie.
(c) His comments.
(d) His story.

3. In what type of establishment is the author waiting for someone at the beginning of Part Two: The Golden Vanity?
(a) A coffee shop.
(b) A taxidermy shop.
(c) An auto body shop.
(d) A library.

4. For what reason do Alex and the unnamed narrator travel from Brooklyn to Manhattan during a partial blackout caused by the storm?
(a) For the unnamed narrator's medical appointment.
(b) To get food.
(c) To get water.
(d) For Alex's medical appointment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator goes to the university campus where he is on leave from teaching to meet with which former student?

2. Which creature is the focus of the book the unnamed narrator and Roberto plan to write together?

3. On the day the unnamed narrator ventures out to the Marfa Book Company, he has "gone more than" how many "weeks without really speaking to anyone" (175)?

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

5. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?

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