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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. 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?

2. How many active members belong to the food co-op where the unnamed narrator meets Noor?

3. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?

4. What is the name of the single book the unnamed narrator brings along with him for his residency in Texas?

5. At what point in the party does the unnamed narrator decide not to use what he believes is cocaine?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. Name three excuses the unnamed narrator uses when people ask to see him during his writers' residency.

5. How does the theme of fatherhood enter the narrative in Part Four?

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

7. What is the unnamed narrator's specific reason for feeling the way he does about the totaled art?

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

9. How does the unnamed narrator end up at a party in Part Four?

10. Why does Alex caution the unnamed narrator not to write about medical issues and what evidence does she use for her argument?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within 10:04.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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