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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. Alex tells the unnamed narrator to remember that he had felt responsible for his mother's diagnosis of what malady?
2. What is NOT a source to which people have ascribed "the Marfa Lights," though scientists claim they are "atmospheric reflections" (192)?
3. At what point in the party does the unnamed narrator decide not to use what he believes is cocaine?
4. One morning, the unnamed narrator wakes up to find that what noisy activity is going on nearby?
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. Why does Alex caution the unnamed narrator not to write about medical issues and what evidence does she use for her argument?
2. How does Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?
3. Name three excuses the unnamed narrator uses when people ask to see him during his writers' residency.
4. How does the unnamed narrator's usual routine change during his writers' residency?
5. How does the theme of identity arise within the story about her family Noor relates to the unnamed narrator in Part Three?
6. Discuss an instance when Lerner includes an allusion to one of his own literary works.
7. What aspect of Walt Whitman's strange autobiography Specimen Days disgusts the unnamed narrator and why?
8. The unnamed narrator finds himself working diligently in Texas, but "on the wrong thing" (170). What other piece does he work on instead?
9. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?
10. For what reason does the unnamed narrator travel to Texas in Part Four?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what way does Lerner go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to influence the reader's experience with the text?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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