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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 form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to sporadically communicate with Alex during his residency?
(a) Text messages.
(b) Phone calls.
(c) Skype.
(d) Email.

2. At what point in the party does the unnamed narrator decide not to use what he believes is cocaine?
(a) After he has gone swimming.
(b) After he has already done a line.
(c) After he has decided to go swimming.
(d) After he has had a few drinks.

3. On the day the unnamed narrator ventures out to the Marfa Book Company, he has "gone more than" how many "weeks without really speaking to anyone" (175)?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. Who pays the whole bill for everyone's dinner at Cochineal in Part Four?
(a) Monika.
(b) The unnamed narrator.
(c) The intern.
(d) Diane.

5. What task is the unnamed narrator supposed to be working on during the residency?
(a) Expanding his novel into a series.
(b) Collapsing his novel into a short story.
(c) Expanding his short story into a novel.
(d) Expanding his book of poetry into a novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. The distinguished female author and the unnamed narrator both order what dish?

2. How many years before narrative present did Noor's father die of a heart attack?

3. What action does the intern take at the party without seeming to realize he is doing it?

4. "The distinguished female author" (119) sitting across from the unnamed narrator at the literary dinner compliments him on what?

5. How many active members belong to the food co-op where the unnamed narrator meets Noor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the unnamed narrator end up at a party in Part Four?

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

4. What object does the unnamed narrator keep patting inside his pocket as he makes his way to the seventh floor of New-York Presbyterian Hospital?

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

6. How does the unnamed narrator meet Noor?

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

8. How does Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?

9. What aspect of Walt Whitman's strange autobiography Specimen Days disgusts the unnamed narrator and why?

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

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