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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 distinguished female author and the unnamed narrator both order what dish?
2. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator choose the particular book he brings along on the residency?
3. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?
4. After the art showing, when the unnamed narrator goes to dinner at Cochineal, which character gets interrupted each time he tries to contribute to the conversation?
5. Which element of the physical world never gives the unnamed narrator a "little thrill" (107)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the unnamed narrator's usual routine change during his writers' residency?
2. How does Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?
3. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator visit the seventh floor of New-York Presbyterian Hospital at the beginning of Part Three?
4. What are the consequences of the mistake the intern makes in Part Four?
5. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?
6. What aspect of Walt Whitman's strange autobiography Specimen Days disgusts the unnamed narrator and why?
7. What is the only low point in the adventure Roberto and the unnamed narrator go on together in Part Three?
8. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?
9. Discuss an instance when Lerner includes an allusion to one of his own literary works.
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
How is the theme of family bonds portrayed in 10:04? Examine Lerner's treatment of and messages regarding family bonds throughout the work.
Essay Topic 2
Read a lengthy interview with Lerner. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Lerner’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of 10:04.
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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