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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the unnamed narrator's residency, he must have what objects mailed to his temporary address in Texas?
(a) Literary contracts.
(b) Medications.
(c) His agent's notes.
(d) Tax forms.

2. While the unnamed narrator is at the bookstore, he runs into an acquaintance who invites him to a private showing of which artist's work?
(a) Judd.
(b) Lichtenstein.
(c) Warhol.
(d) Mondrian.

3. How many hours does it take for Michael to drive the unnamed narrator from the airport to his residency house?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. How many minutes of the unnamed narrator's shift at the co-op passes during Noor's story?
(a) 90.
(b) 30.
(c) 60.
(d) 45.

5. Alena puts the pieces of a shattered sculpture by which artist into the unnamed narrator's hands?
(a) Henri Matisse.
(b) Andy Warhol.
(c) Jeff Koons.
(d) Salvador Dali.

6. What form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to communicate with Alena during his residency?
(a) Text messages.
(b) Phone calls.
(c) None.
(d) Email.

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

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

9. At what time of day does the unnamed narrator reach his residency house in Texas?
(a) Late afternoon.
(b) The middle of the night.
(c) Late morning.
(d) Early morning.

10. On the day the unnamed narrator ventures out to the Marfa Book Company, he has "gone more than" how many "weeks without really speaking to anyone" (175)?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

11. To what location is the unnamed narrator referring when he has the distinguished female author in hysterical laughter over the "masturbatorium" (125)?
(a) The fertility clinic.
(b) The library.
(c) The gay bar.
(d) The porn theater.

12. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author that his next book will involve a woman lying about having which malady?
(a) Multiple sclerosis.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Lupus.
(d) Tuberculosis.

13. On what day of the week does the unnamed narrator arrive at his residency house?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Friday.

14. What action does the intern take at the party without seeming to realize he is doing it?
(a) Dives into the pool.
(b) Goes for a walk.
(c) Vomits on himself.
(d) Insults the host.

15. Alex cautions the unnamed narrator in Part Three not to write about what kinds of issues?
(a) Financial issues.
(b) Medical issues.
(c) Law issues.
(d) Existential issues.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines of what turns out to be ketamine does the unnamed narrator do at the party in Part Four?

2. The unnamed narrator's residency house is located across the street from which poet's former home?

3. The unnamed narrator must leave in the middle of Noor's story one day during their shift to check if which item is in stock?

4. The distinguished female author tells the unnamed narrator that when she was in the first grade, she openly laughed when given the news that which person had died?

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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