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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Liza.
(b) Alena.
(c) Sharon.
(d) Alex.

4. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?
(a) Inducing amnesia.
(b) Taking a drug.
(c) Indulging his desire for comfort.
(d) Going to sleep.

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?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Voice of reason.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Fool.

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

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

8. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

9. 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) Mary.
(c) Liza.
(d) Alena.

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

11. In what year of college was Alex enrolled when she met the unnamed narrator?
(a) Freshman.
(b) Junior.
(c) Senior.
(d) Sophomore.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. At what type of school had the author been teaching before taking his leave of absence?

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

4. The unnamed narrator receives an email from Natali saying that her husband had hurt what part of his body in a fall?

5. What is the name of the unnamed narrator's friend who teaches third grade at a "dual-language school in Sunset Park" (10)?

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