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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. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?
(a) Taking a drug.
(b) Indulging his desire for comfort.
(c) Going to sleep.
(d) Inducing amnesia.

2. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?
(a) Whole Foods.
(b) Von's.
(c) Alpha Beta.
(d) Kroger.

3. During the first meeting of Hannah and the author, she explains what term to him that "he'd never heard" (68)?
(a) Apoplexy.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Mercurochrome.
(d) Pareidolia.

4. What food from the fancy dinner in Chelsea does the narrator refer to again and again?
(a) Eel.
(b) Shark.
(c) Tuna.
(d) Octopus.

5. In what year of college was Alex enrolled when she met the unnamed narrator?
(a) Sophomore.
(b) Senior.
(c) Freshman.
(d) Junior.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?

3. The unnamed narrator recalls that the poet Wallace Stevens had inspired how many of Bernard's favorite poets, including Bronk?

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

5. The author notices that Hannah has what color hair, as well as a silver nose ring?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Of what type of metafiction is Part Two: The Golden Vanity composed?

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

5. 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)?

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

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

8. Who is Alena?

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

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

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