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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. How many minutes of the unnamed narrator's shift at the co-op passes during Noor's story?
2. At what time of day does the unnamed narrator reach his residency house in Texas?
3. Looking at what sight always gives the unnamed narrator a "small thrill" (107)?
4. At what point in the party does the unnamed narrator decide not to use what he believes is cocaine?
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. Who is Michael and how does the unnamed narrator meet him?
2. What is the only low point in the adventure Roberto and the unnamed narrator go on together in Part Three?
3. How does the theme of identity arise within the story about her family Noor relates to the unnamed narrator in Part Three?
4. What aspect of Walt Whitman's strange autobiography Specimen Days disgusts the unnamed narrator and why?
5. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?
6. Discuss an instance when Lerner includes an allusion to one of his own literary works.
7. What is the unnamed narrator's specific reason for feeling the way he does about the totaled art?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. Name three excuses the unnamed narrator uses when people ask to see him during his writers' residency.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Lerner's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different physical locations in a particular way within the narrative of 10:04.
Essay Topic 2
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel 10:04 and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within 10:04.
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