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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. When the unnamed narrator rises for his first full day in Marfa, he finds his face covered in what substance?
(a) Flour.
(b) Blood.
(c) Makeup.
(d) Paint.

2. What is the only element of the physical world that gives the unnamed narrator a feeling of excitement?
(a) The natural world.
(b) The sky.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Built space.

3. The unnamed narrator compares the experience of looking at Judd's works with the experience of looking at what other object?
(a) The Grand Canyon.
(b) The Holy Grail.
(c) Stonehenge.
(d) The third eye.

4. How many hours does it take for Michael to drive the unnamed narrator from the airport to his residency house?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

5. At the end of Part Four, the unnamed narrator finally figures out that the man who had greeted him at the bookstore has what name?
(a) Charles.
(b) Jeff.
(c) Paul.
(d) Norman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object inside the unnamed narrator's pocket does he keep patting as he approaches the hospital?

2. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?

3. One morning, the unnamed narrator wakes up to find that what noisy activity is going on nearby?

4. In what field does Alena's friend Peter work?

5. What form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to communicate with Alena during his residency?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Michael and how does the unnamed narrator meet him?

3. How does the unnamed narrator's usual routine change during his writers' residency?

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

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

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

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

8. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?

9. 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?

10. In what way does the unnamed narrator set up a dichotomy between the art of the "readymade" (133) and the totaled art in Alena's institute?

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