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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. Liza tells the author that he would save how many dollars by opting for local anesthesia?
2. What object does the author encounter along his walk that makes him feel as if it is exists "at once in the present and in various pasts" (66)?
3. For whom is the author waiting at the start of Part Two: The Golden Vanity, which is composed of a short story written by the fictional unnamed narrator?
4. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?
5. When the scene of the first meeting of Hannah and the author comes to an end, what is included just prior to the page break?
Short Essay Questions
1. What situation causes the author a great deal of anxiety when the librarian arrives for their meeting?
2. Who is Roberto and what are his concerns about the world?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. Discuss an instance when Lerner uses a simile to provide a vivid image of the setting in "The Golden Vanity."
6. What major decision does the unnamed narrator make when he first attends a showing of The Clock?
7. In what setting does the opening scene of "The Golden Vanity" take place?
8. Provide an example when Lerner's role as a poet becomes apparent through his use of sensory details.
9. What advice from Dr. Roberts does the author apply within "The Golden Vanity" and how does he apply it?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Lerner’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of 10:04.
Essay Topic 2
What is the function of the unnamed narrator's best friend Alex within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Lerner in depicting Alex and include in your discussion the reasons that Lerner portrays Alex in these particular ways.
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Lerner in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of 10:04. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Lerner’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
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