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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 is the name of the old man who does so much cocaine at the party that it worries the unnamed narrator?
2. Alena puts the pieces of a shattered sculpture by which artist into the unnamed narrator's hands?
3. From what type of establishment does the unnamed narrator buy his groceries throughout his residency in Texas?
4. The unnamed narrator states in Part Three that he had been talking about his "performance anxiety with Jon and Sharon and Alena" (89) for how many weeks prior to his appointment to give a semen sample?
5. The distinguished female author tells the unnamed narrator that when she was in the first grade, she openly laughed when given the news that which person had died?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does the unnamed narrator meet Noor?
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 the only low point in the adventure Roberto and the unnamed narrator go on together in Part Three?
5. How does the theme of fatherhood enter the narrative in Part Four?
6. Who is Michael and how does the unnamed narrator meet him?
7. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?
8. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?
9. How does Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?
10. How does the unnamed narrator's usual routine change during his writers' residency?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Choose an object from 10:04, such as the child-size chair, the museum, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within 10:04.
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