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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which creature is the focus of the book the unnamed narrator and Roberto plan to write together?
(a) The Loch Ness monster.
(b) The unicorn.
(c) The Yeti.
(d) The brontosaurus.

2. The unnamed narrator recalls that the poet Wallace Stevens had inspired how many of Bernard's favorite poets, including Bronk?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

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

4. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?
(a) 36.
(b) 32.
(c) 41.
(d) 29.

5. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

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

7. 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?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York City.
(c) The West coast.
(d) The East coast.

8. In what type of establishment is the author waiting for someone at the beginning of Part Two: The Golden Vanity?
(a) A coffee shop.
(b) A taxidermy shop.
(c) A library.
(d) An auto body shop.

9. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?
(a) Strand.
(b) Cummings.
(c) Bronk.
(d) Stevens.

10. Liz tells the author that he will "do the twilight-sedation thing because" (64) he is a what?
(a) A loser.
(b) A trainwreck.
(c) A scaredy cat.
(d) A weakling.

11. When the author reaches the bar in Dumbo, what is hanging outside the bar in lieu of a sign?
(a) A barber pole.
(b) A noose.
(c) An exposed light bulb.
(d) A set of prayer flags.

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

13. 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) Alena.
(c) Sharon.
(d) Liza.

14. During the first meeting of Hannah and the author, she explains what term to him that "he'd never heard" (68)?
(a) Pareidolia.
(b) Mercurochrome.
(c) Apoplexy.
(d) Synesthesia.

15. 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 mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom is the author waiting at the start of Part Two: The Golden Vanity, which is composed of a short story written by the fictional unnamed narrator?

2. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?

3. In what way are Sharon and Jon, two of the unnamed narrator's friends, acquainted?

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

5. 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?

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