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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states that in what month, his walks with Liza are dominated by conversation about methods of sedation?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) April.
(d) October.

2. 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) The East coast.
(b) The West coast.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York City.

3. Liza is described by the author as having a tendency to "begin an activity" (62) by taking what action?
(a) Listing its pros and cons.
(b) Listing its dangers.
(c) Claiming that she would have no part in it.
(d) Enlisting others to help.

4. 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) A few.
(c) Many.
(d) 12.

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

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

7. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?
(a) The shamans.
(b) The Sikhs.
(c) The Turks.
(d) The Hassidim.

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

9. At what location does the author always meet Liza to begin their walks?
(a) Prospect Park.
(b) Grand Army Plaza.
(c) The east side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
(d) Central Park.

10. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Queens.
(d) Manhattan.

11. What event had the narrator and his agent just celebrated with a fancy dinner in Chelsea?
(a) The agent's promotion.
(b) The narrator's newest novel has just been completed.
(c) The narrator's previous novel had been purchased for movie rights.
(d) The narrator's next novel had been a hot commodity among the major publishing houses.

12. 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.

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

14. Part Two: The Golden Vanity is an excerpt of which character's fictional writing?
(a) Alex.
(b) Natali.
(c) The unnamed narrator.
(d) Bernard.

15. Roberto tells the unnamed narrator that he has a recurring dream about what future event?
(a) California sinking into the sea.
(b) The Second Coming of Christ.
(c) The second Big Bang.
(d) Another ice age.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year of college was Alex enrolled when she met the unnamed narrator?

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

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 city is the novel 10:04 set?

5. "The author" (54) inhabits what role in the short story entitled "The Golden Vanity" that acts as the entirety of Part Two of 10:04?

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