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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. What identity did Noor feel she had lost once she found out the true identity of her biological father?
2. Alex cautions the unnamed narrator in Part Three not to write about what kinds of issues?
3. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?
4. The unnamed narrator compares the experience of looking at Judd's works with the experience of looking at what other object?
5. To what location is the unnamed narrator referring when he has the distinguished female author in hysterical laughter over the "masturbatorium" (125)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What aspect of Walt Whitman's strange autobiography Specimen Days disgusts the unnamed narrator and why?
2. What are the consequences of the mistake the intern makes in Part Four?
3. The unnamed narrator finds himself working diligently in Texas, but "on the wrong thing" (170). What other piece does he work on instead?
4. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?
5. For what reason does the unnamed narrator travel to Texas in Part Four?
6. Who is Michael and how does the unnamed narrator meet him?
7. How does Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?
8. Discuss an instance when Lerner includes an allusion to one of his own literary works.
9. 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?
10. How does the theme of fatherhood enter the narrative in Part Four?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Lerner’s novel 10:04. What message is Lerner sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Lerner's choice to tell the story of 10:04 using the first and second person points of view. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Lerner’s intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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