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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a year named within the author's mention of "various pasts" (66) being connected by a single object?
(a) 1883.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2012.
(d) 1912.

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

3. How many hours in advance of the author's medical appointment must he call to choose a method of sedation?
(a) 72.
(b) 24.
(c) 36.
(d) 48.

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)?
(a) A gaslight.
(b) A broom.
(c) A dog.
(d) A hay bale.

5. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator had planned to use the name Mary in his novel to represent which of his real acquaintances?
(a) Alex.
(b) Liza.
(c) Alena.
(d) Sharon.

6. How old is the unnamed narrator in narrative present?
(a) 33.
(b) 38.
(c) 42.
(d) 27.

7. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 600.
(c) 800.
(d) 2,000.

8. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?
(a) Appendectomy.
(b) Tonsil removal.
(c) Wisdom tooth removal.
(d) Gallbladder removal.

9. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?
(a) A elderly person.
(b) A toddler.
(c) An infant.
(d) A kindergartener.

10. What action does the author take in his final comment to Liza during their walk, as he also tells Liza to "shut up" (64)?
(a) He sighs.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He frowns.
(d) He shoves her.

11. The unnamed narrator recalls the day Alex told him during a walk on Atlantic that which member of her family "had been diagnosed in a late stage" (7)?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her aunt.

12. How many days after the author's medical procedure does he receive a phone call about his abnormal X-ray telling him to see a neurologist?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

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

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

15. How many people in total have drinks together on the occasion when the author and Hannah first meet?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food from the fancy dinner in Chelsea does the narrator refer to again and again?

2. Liza tells the author that he would save how many dollars by opting for local anesthesia?

3. 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?

4. In what state do Natali and Bernard live?

5. What body of water do Liza and the author reach just before the author says he has decided to opt for local anesthesia?

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