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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. When the author reaches the bar in Dumbo, what is hanging outside the bar in lieu of a sign?
2. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?
3. 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)?
4. Liz tells the author that he will "do the twilight-sedation thing because" (64) he is a what?
5. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What medical procedure does the author require and why?
2. What does the gaslight lamp symbolize within the short story "The Golden Vanity"?
3. Who is Alena?
4. What major decision does the unnamed narrator make when he first attends a showing of The Clock?
5. 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?
6. What situation causes the author a great deal of anxiety when the librarian arrives for their meeting?
7. Explain the art installation Alex and the unnamed narrator attend in Part One.
8. 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)?
9. What action by the author comprises the tender moment he experiences with Liza in a taxi in Part Two: The Golden Vanity?
10. Why does the unnamed narrator refer to a particular scene in Part One as having "faded from the photograph" (24)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that discusses the symbolism of the cover art chosen for 10:04.
Essay Topic 2
Examine Lerner’s use of characterization methods to portray the unnamed narrator within the narrative. What effects do these characterization methods have on the themes and messages inherent in 10:04?
Essay Topic 3
What is Lerner’s purpose for including visual images within the novel 10:04?
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