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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Alpha Beta.
(c) Kroger.
(d) Von's.

2. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?
(a) The doctor was a figment of the author's imagination.
(b) The doctor was exaggerating.
(c) The doctor was minimizing.
(d) The doctor was pulling a prank.

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

4. Liza laughingly compares the author to which historical figure once he announces that he will opt for local anesthesia?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Joan of Arc.
(d) Patton.

5. How many months before the agent and the narrator's fancy dinner in Chelsea did the agent tell him she thought he could 'get a strong six-figure' advance based on a story" (3) he had written for the New Yorker?
(a) Many.
(b) A few.
(c) 12.
(d) Two.

6. On what day of the week is the author scheduled to have a medical procedure done?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Thursday.

7. The unnamed narrator remarks in Part One that the movie Back to the Future was a movie of what type from his youth?
(a) Memorable.
(b) Fun.
(c) Crucial.
(d) Iconic.

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

9. What body of water do Liza and the author reach just before the author says he has decided to opt for local anesthesia?
(a) A lake.
(b) A bay.
(c) A river.
(d) An ocean.

10. What is the name of the unnamed narrator's friend who teaches third grade at a "dual-language school in Sunset Park" (10)?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Roberto.
(d) Alex.

11. The morning of the author's planned blind date with Hannah, he calls which character to ask for company on the day of his medical procedure?
(a) Liza.
(b) Mary.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Josh.

12. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator chose to use the name Liza to represent Alex due to what reason?
(a) It had been the name of her deceased little sister.
(b) It had been the name of her beloved grandmother.
(c) It had been her father's second choice for her name.
(d) It had been her mother's second choice for her name.

13. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum.
(b) MOMA.
(c) The Guggenheim.
(d) The Smithsonian.

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

15. In what magazine was the section of the text entitled Part Two: The Golden Vanity originally published as a short story?
(a) Vogue.
(b) Harper's.
(c) The Atlantic Monthly.
(d) The New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?

2. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?

3. From what country did Roberto originally hail?

4. During the first meeting of Hannah and the author, she explains what term to him that "he'd never heard" (68)?

5. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?

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