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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The unnamed narrator reveals in Part Five that which character had mailed back his copy of Bronk's selected poems?
(a) Bernard.
(b) Natali.
(c) Noor.
(d) Jon.

2. What form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to sporadically communicate with Alex during his residency?
(a) Text messages.
(b) Phone calls.
(c) Email.
(d) Skype.

3. It alarms the unnamed narrator when his former student uses what phrase to describe O'Brien's poems in the book Metropole?
(a) Aphed up.
(b) Spider out.
(c) Ladybug down.
(d) Butterfly up.

4. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?
(a) Whole Foods.
(b) Kroger.
(c) Alpha Beta.
(d) Von's.

5. In what state do Natali and Bernard live?
(a) Delaware.
(b) New York.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what type of object does the unnamed narrator recline while trying to conceive a child at Alex's mother's house?

2. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?

3. Liz tells the author that he will "do the twilight-sedation thing because" (64) he is a what?

4. While the unnamed narrator is at the bookstore, he runs into an acquaintance who invites him to a private showing of which artist's work?

5. At what time of day does the unnamed narrator reach his residency house in Texas?

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