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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. On what day of the week does the unnamed narrator arrive at his residency house?
2. The unnamed narrator must leave in the middle of Noor's story one day during their shift to check if which item is in stock?
3. How does the unnamed narrator react to holding pieces of a sculpture?
4. To whose apartment does the unnamed narrator go after he leaves the literary dinner in Part Three?
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. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?
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 unnamed narrator react to holding the Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture in Part Three and how do Alena and Peter react to his reaction?
4. What is the unnamed narrator's specific reason for feeling the way he does about the totaled art?
5. How does the unnamed narrator's usual routine change during his writers' residency?
6. Name three excuses the unnamed narrator uses when people ask to see him during his writers' residency.
7. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?
8. Discuss an instance when Lerner includes an allusion to one of his own literary works.
9. What mistake does the intern make in Part Four and what similar mistake does the unnamed narrator make?
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
Discuss Lerner’s use of the motif of sound within the novel 10:04.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
How is the theme of family bonds portrayed in 10:04? Examine Lerner's treatment of and messages regarding family bonds throughout the work.
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