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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 action does the author take in his final comment to Liza during their walk, as he also tells Liza to "shut up" (64)?
(a) He frowns.
(b) He sighs.
(c) He shoves her.
(d) He laughs.

2. From what country did Roberto originally hail?
(a) Peru.
(b) Venezuela.
(c) San Salvador.
(d) Cuba.

3. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the heat is described in what way?
(a) Cloying.
(b) Wintry.
(c) Summery.
(d) Thick.

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)?
(a) A gaslight.
(b) A dog.
(c) A hay bale.
(d) A broom.

5. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?
(a) His agent.
(b) His sister.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His cousin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The unnamed narrator was recently diagnosed with a defect of what body part?

4. In what state do Natali and Bernard live?

5. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. What event have the unnamed narrator and his agent just been celebrating when the novel opens, and why is the occasion bittersweet for the unnamed narrator?

5. 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?

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

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

8. Who is Alena?

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

10. What medical procedure does the author require and why?

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