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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 color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

2. The scene at the bar in Part Two: The Golden Vanity transitions to a scene in which the author appears to speak with which character?
(a) Dr. Roberts.
(b) Mary.
(c) Hannah.
(d) Liza.

3. Liza tells the author that he would save how many dollars by opting for local anesthesia?
(a) $100.
(b) $150.
(c) $200.
(d) $300.

4. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator had planned to use the name Josh in his novel to represent which of his real acquaintances?
(a) Dr. Andrews.
(b) Alex.
(c) Jon.
(d) David.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. At what location does the author always meet Liza to begin their walks?

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

4. 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?

5. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the main difference between the unnamed narrator of 10:04 and the character in the unnamed narrator's novel he calls "the author" (61)?

3. Provide an example when Lerner's role as a poet becomes apparent through his use of sensory details.

4. Who is Alena?

5. Why does the unnamed narrator refer to a particular scene in Part One as having "faded from the photograph" (24)?

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

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

9. In what location does Alex ask the unnamed narrator to provide the sperm that will create her child and what is significant about her lack of eye contact in this moment?

10. For what reason is the author so conflicted about the choice "between twilight sedation and local anesthesia" (62)?

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