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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. In what city is the novel 10:04 set?
(a) New York City.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) London.
(d) San Francisco.

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

3. Once Alex and the unnamed narrator make it to Alex's apartment, they hear through what medium that "the storm would make landfall around 4:00 a.m." (20)?
(a) Television.
(b) Radio.
(c) Newspaper.
(d) Podcast.

4. 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) Evel Knievel.
(c) Baby Jessica.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

5. The unnamed narrator receives an email from Natali saying that her husband had hurt what part of his body in a fall?
(a) His leg.
(b) His neck.
(c) His ankle.
(d) His arm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?

3. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?

4. How many days after the author's medical procedure does he receive a phone call about his abnormal X-ray telling him to see a neurologist?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

4. Name and discuss one theme presented within 10:04's epigraph.

5. What major decision does the unnamed narrator make when he first attends a showing of The Clock?

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

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

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

9. In what setting does the opening scene of "The Golden Vanity" take place?

10. What action by the author comprises the tender moment he experiences with Liza in a taxi in Part Two: The Golden Vanity?

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