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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. In what way are Sharon and Jon, two of the unnamed narrator's friends, acquainted?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) They are colleagues.
(c) They are married.
(d) They are siblings.

3. The unnamed narrator was recently diagnosed with a defect of what body part?
(a) The liver.
(b) The heart.
(c) The spine.
(d) The kidney.

4. The unnamed narrator recalls that the poet Wallace Stevens had inspired how many of Bernard's favorite poets, including Bronk?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. Liza laughingly compares the author to which historical figure once he announces that he will opt for local anesthesia?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Patton.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

1. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?

2. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?

3. In what city is the novel 10:04 set?

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. What event had the narrator and his agent just celebrated with a fancy dinner in Chelsea?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. Who is Alena?

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

8. What situation causes the author a great deal of anxiety when the librarian arrives for their meeting?

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

10. 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?

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