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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 object inside the unnamed narrator's pocket does he keep patting as he approaches the hospital?
(a) A ring.
(b) A check.
(c) A coin.
(d) A pill.

2. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?
(a) 38.
(b) 70.
(c) 18.
(d) 25.

3. In what year did the tragedy discussed by the unnamed narrator at the literary event occur?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1992.

4. The only book the unnamed narrator brings to the residency is a book belonging to which genre?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Autobiography.
(c) Science Fiction.
(d) Poetry.

5. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author at dinner that which of his body fluids is "abnormal" (121)?
(a) Blood.
(b) Urine.
(c) Saliva.
(d) Semen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What task is the unnamed narrator supposed to be working on during the residency?

2. How many hours does it take for Michael to drive the unnamed narrator from the airport to his residency house?

3. What is the name of the old man who does so much cocaine at the party that it worries the unnamed narrator?

4. How does the unnamed narrator react to holding pieces of a sculpture?

5. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name three excuses the unnamed narrator uses when people ask to see him during his writers' residency.

2. How does the unnamed narrator react to holding the Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture in Part Three and how do Alena and Peter react to his reaction?

3. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator visit the seventh floor of New-York Presbyterian Hospital at the beginning of Part Three?

4. How does the theme of fatherhood enter the narrative in Part Four?

5. How does the unnamed narrator meet Noor?

6. What is the unnamed narrator's specific reason for feeling the way he does about the totaled art?

7. The unnamed narrator finds himself working diligently in Texas, but "on the wrong thing" (170). What other piece does he work on instead?

8. What mistake does the intern make in Part Four and what similar mistake does the unnamed narrator make?

9. For what reason does the unnamed narrator travel to Texas in Part Four?

10. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?

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