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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What body of water do Liza and the author reach just before the author says he has decided to opt for local anesthesia?
(a) A lake.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A bay.
(d) A river.

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

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

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

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?
(a) Mary.
(b) Hannah.
(c) Josh.
(d) Liza.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?

2. Alex and the unnamed narrator first met in college in a class about what topic?

3. The unnamed narrator remarks in Part One that the movie Back to the Future was a movie of what type from his youth?

4. 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)?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the art installation Alex and the unnamed narrator attend in Part One.

2. Who is Alena?

3. What does the gaslight lamp symbolize within the short story "The Golden Vanity"?

4. Discuss an instance when Lerner uses a simile to provide a vivid image of the setting in "The Golden Vanity."

5. How did Alex and the unnamed narrator first meet and when?

6. What event does the author recall at the end of the story "The Golden Vanity," causing him to conclude that the event had never happened?

7. How does Lerner demonstrate the closeness that exists between the unnamed narrator and his best friend Alex?

8. Who is Roberto and what are his concerns about the world?

9. What advice from Dr. Roberts does the author apply within "The Golden Vanity" and how does he apply it?

10. What injury lands Bernard in the hospital and what role do Natali and Bernard then ask the unnamed narrator to fulfill?

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