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

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

3. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Queens.
(d) Brooklyn.

4. What is NOT a year named within the author's mention of "various pasts" (66) being connected by a single object?
(a) 2016.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1883.
(d) 2012.

5. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?
(a) 800.
(b) 1,200.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 600.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year of college was the unnamed narrator enrolled when he met Alex?

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

3. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?

4. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the light is described in what way?

5. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss an instance when Lerner uses a simile to provide a vivid image of the setting in "The Golden Vanity."

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. 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?

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