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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Alena and Peter react to the unnamed narrator's response to the art in Alena's apartment?
(a) They cry.
(b) They shriek.
(c) They whisper.
(d) They laugh.

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) A chart.
(b) An image.
(c) A poem.
(d) A newspaper article.

3. The unnamed narrator's residency house is located across the street from which poet's former home?
(a) Robert Creeley.
(b) Seamus Heaney.
(c) Robert Frost.
(d) Mark Strand.

4. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

5. Part Five of 10:04 includes a photograph of what object co-created by the unnamed narrator and Roberto?
(a) A house of cards.
(b) A diorama.
(c) A mobile.
(d) A domino sculpture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the intern take at the party without seeming to realize he is doing it?

2. What is NOT a year named within the author's mention of "various pasts" (66) being connected by a single object?

3. What three words of advice does the distinguished female author give to the unnamed narrator after they hug their goodbyes?

4. When the unnamed narrator rises for his first full day in Marfa, he finds his face covered in what substance?

5. How many "substantial lines" does the intern do "in quick succession" (185) in an attempt to impress the unnamed narrator at the party?

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