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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator recalls his class writing letters to which historical figure when he was 7 years old at Randolph Elementary School?
(a) Evel Knievel.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Christa McAuliffe.
(d) Baby Jessica.

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

4. In what way are Sharon and Jon, two of the unnamed narrator's friends, acquainted?
(a) They are colleagues.
(b) They are married.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are siblings.

5. The unnamed narrator and Alex are looking at a painting of which historical figure when she asks him to provide the sperm for her child?
(a) Marie Antoinette.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Joan of Arc.
(d) Napoleon.

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

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

8. 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 minimizing.
(c) The doctor was pulling a prank.
(d) The doctor was exaggerating.

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

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 laughs.
(b) He frowns.
(c) He shoves her.
(d) He sighs.

11. Alex and the unnamed narrator first met in college in a class about what topic?
(a) Geology.
(b) Music.
(c) Dance.
(d) Great novels.

12. 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.

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

14. 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) Two.
(b) Many.
(c) A few.
(d) 12.

15. The scene at the bar in Part Two: The Golden Vanity transitions to a scene in which the author appears to speak with which character?
(a) Liza.
(b) Dr. Roberts.
(c) Mary.
(d) Hannah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Just after a photograph of an astronaut is presented in Part One, the narrator says that "an unusually large cyclonic system with a warm core was approaching" (16) what location?

2. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?

3. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?

4. How many people in total have drinks together on the occasion when the author and Hannah first meet?

5. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?

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