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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what type of restaurant did Noor's mother take her to tell her the identity of her biological father?
(a) French.
(b) Italian.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Mexican.

2. What percentage of the unnamed narrator's bill at the hospital in Part Three is covered by his insurance?
(a) 0.
(b) 70.
(c) 50.
(d) 20.

3. After the art showing, when the unnamed narrator goes to dinner at Cochineal, which character gets interrupted each time he tries to contribute to the conversation?
(a) Diane.
(b) The unnamed narrator.
(c) Monika.
(d) The intern.

4. How do Alena and Peter react to the unnamed narrator's response to the art in Alena's apartment?
(a) They laugh.
(b) They shriek.
(c) They cry.
(d) They whisper.

5. In Part Four, the unnamed narrator begins a writers' residency in which Texas city?
(a) Dallas.
(b) San Antonio.
(c) Austin.
(d) Marfa.

6. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator choose the particular book he brings along on the residency?
(a) For a teaching assignment.
(b) To remind him why he loves writing.
(c) To use it as a model for his own book.
(d) To get it signed.

7. One morning, the unnamed narrator wakes up to find that what noisy activity is going on nearby?
(a) Yard work.
(b) Street hockey.
(c) Pressure washing.
(d) Roof work.

8. On what floor of the hospital is the fertility office, where the unnamed narrator is scheduled to give a semen sample?
(a) 4th.
(b) 6th.
(c) 2nd.
(d) 7th.

9. To whose apartment does the unnamed narrator go after he leaves the literary dinner in Part Three?
(a) Jon.
(b) Sharon.
(c) Alex.
(d) Alena.

10. When the unnamed narrator attends a party in Part Four, he finds that the guests in the kitchen are different from the other guests in what way?
(a) They are poets.
(b) They are younger.
(c) They are novelists.
(d) They are older.

11. How many active members belong to the food co-op where the unnamed narrator meets Noor?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 15,000.
(d) 2,500.

12. The unnamed narrator's residency house is located across the street from which poet's former home?
(a) Seamus Heaney.
(b) Robert Frost.
(c) Robert Creeley.
(d) Mark Strand.

13. When the unnamed narrator and the distinguished female author hit it off at the literary dinner, what dessert do they share?
(a) Peach pie.
(b) Tiramisu.
(c) A chocolate tart.
(d) Chocolate crickets.

14. What object inside the unnamed narrator's pocket does he keep patting as he approaches the hospital?
(a) A check.
(b) A coin.
(c) A ring.
(d) A pill.

15. The unnamed narrator states that "the most riveting and disturbing and particular passages" of his one book "are about" (166) which topic?
(a) The French-Indian War.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only element of the physical world that gives the unnamed narrator a feeling of excitement?

2. At which airport is the unnamed narrator picked up by "Michael, the caretaker of the residency houses" (163)?

3. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?

4. "The distinguished female author" (119) sitting across from the unnamed narrator at the literary dinner compliments him on what?

5. What three words of advice does the distinguished female author give to the unnamed narrator after they hug their goodbyes?

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