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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

2. Alena tells the unnamed narrator at the train station that she has hardly seen him in how many weeks?
(a) 8 or 9.
(b) 3 or 4.
(c) 10 or 11.
(d) 5 or 6.

3. The unnamed narrator receives an email from Natali saying that her husband had hurt what part of his body in a fall?
(a) His ankle.
(b) His leg.
(c) His neck.
(d) His arm.

4. The unnamed narrator accidentally encounters Alena underground after they have just engaged in what kind of goodbye "kiss" (209)?
(a) Satisfying.
(b) Final.
(c) Strange.
(d) Sexy.

5. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the light is described in what way?
(a) Summery.
(b) Autumnal.
(c) Wintry.
(d) Haunting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the single book the unnamed narrator brings along with him for his residency in Texas?

2. Alex tells the unnamed narrator to remember that he had felt responsible for his mother's diagnosis of what malady?

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

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)?

5. How many hours in advance of the author's medical appointment must he call to choose a method of sedation?

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