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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?

2. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?

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

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. Just after a photograph of an astronaut is presented in Part One, the narrator says that "an unusually large cyclonic system with a warm core was approaching" (16) what location?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event does the author recall at the end of the story "The Golden Vanity," causing him to conclude that the event had never happened?

2. What does the gaslight lamp symbolize within the short story "The Golden Vanity"?

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

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

5. Who is Alena?

6. 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?

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

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

9. What is the main difference between the unnamed narrator of 10:04 and the character in the unnamed narrator's novel he calls "the author" (61)?

10. What action by the author comprises the tender moment he experiences with Liza in a taxi in Part Two: The Golden Vanity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel 10:04 and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Lerner's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different physical locations in a particular way within the narrative of 10:04.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of 10:04.

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