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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three words of advice does the distinguished female author give to the unnamed narrator after they hug their goodbyes?
(a) Be very careful.
(b) Read the horoscope.
(c) Take no chances.
(d) Do it all.

2. When the scene of the first meeting of Hannah and the author comes to an end, what is included just prior to the page break?
(a) An image.
(b) A newspaper article.
(c) A chart.
(d) A poem.

3. Rick is related to Alex in what way, according to the unnamed narrator?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Biological father.
(c) Brother.
(d) Stepfather.

4. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author that his next book will involve a woman lying about having which malady?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Multiple sclerosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Lupus.

5. The unnamed narrator states that "the most riveting and disturbing and particular passages" of his one book "are about" (166) which topic?
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The French-Indian War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What task is the unnamed narrator supposed to be working on during the residency?

2. 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)?

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

4. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?

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

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