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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. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?
2. What is NOT a year named within the author's mention of "various pasts" (66) being connected by a single object?
3. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?
4. 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?
5. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?
Short Essay Questions
1. What situation causes the author a great deal of anxiety when the librarian arrives for their meeting?
2. 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)?
3. Discuss an instance when Lerner uses a simile to provide a vivid image of the setting in "The Golden Vanity."
4. Explain the art installation Alex and the unnamed narrator attend in Part One.
5. What medical procedure does the author require and why?
6. 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?
7. Of what type of metafiction is Part Two: The Golden Vanity composed?
8. 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?
9. What injury lands Bernard in the hospital and what role do Natali and Bernard then ask the unnamed narrator to fulfill?
10. Describe Natali and Bernard's accomplishments in the literary world.
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lerner's decision to include humor within the nonfiction text of 10:04. What purpose did Lerner have in mind when including these instances of humor and how does the inclusion of these instances support the overarching themes and messages of the text?
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