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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. At the end of Part Four, the unnamed narrator finally figures out that the man who had greeted him at the bookstore has what name?
2. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?
3. Alena puts the pieces of a shattered sculpture by which artist into the unnamed narrator's hands?
4. What object inside the unnamed narrator's pocket does he keep patting as he approaches the hospital?
5. When the unnamed narrator attending the private showing of a particular artist's works, he says, "The works felt first and foremost like a" (179) what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the theme of fatherhood enter the narrative in Part Four?
2. 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?
3. How does the unnamed narrator end up at a party in Part Four?
4. How does the unnamed narrator meet Noor?
5. What aspect of Walt Whitman's strange autobiography Specimen Days disgusts the unnamed narrator and why?
6. How does the unnamed narrator react to holding the Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture in Part Three and how do Alena and Peter react to his reaction?
7. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?
8. Name three excuses the unnamed narrator uses when people ask to see him during his writers' residency.
9. Who is Michael and how does the unnamed narrator meet him?
10. In what way does the unnamed narrator set up a dichotomy between the art of the "readymade" (133) and the totaled art in Alena's institute?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Lerner’s use of the motif of sound within the novel 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
In what way does Lerner utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within 10:04 and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the piece.
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