View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The pills used to treat the unnamed narrator's heart condition "have the paradoxical effect of causing a minor tremor in" (163) what part of his body?

2. What percentage of the unnamed narrator's bill at the hospital in Part Three is covered by his insurance?

3. From what type of establishment does the unnamed narrator buy his groceries throughout his residency in Texas?

4. How many lines of what turns out to be ketamine does the unnamed narrator do at the party in Part Four?

5. During the unnamed narrator's residency, he must have what objects mailed to his temporary address in Texas?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?

2. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator visit the seventh floor of New-York Presbyterian Hospital at the beginning of Part Three?

3. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?

4. How does the theme of identity arise within the story about her family Noor relates to the unnamed narrator in Part Three?

5. 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?

6. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?

7. What mistake does the intern make in Part Four and what similar mistake does the unnamed narrator make?

8. How does the unnamed narrator meet Noor?

9. For what reason does the unnamed narrator travel to Texas in Part Four?

10. What is the only low point in the adventure Roberto and the unnamed narrator go on together in Part Three?

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

Examine Lerner’s use of characterization methods to portray the unnamed narrator within the narrative. What effects do these characterization methods have on the themes and messages inherent in 10:04?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of 10:04.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,253 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample