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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator hope to meet in the club?
(a) His ex-wife Amanda.
(b) A movie star.
(c) The co-worker of his dreams, Clara Tillinghast.
(d) The kind of girl who would not be in a place like that.

2. What does the homeless person do on the narrator's train ride to work?
(a) The homeless man steals the narrator's cocaine.
(b) The homeless man sits on an old lady.
(c) The homeless man steals the New York Post.
(d) The homeless man accosts the narrator.

3. What river is the narrator gazing across?
(a) The East River.
(b) The Mississippi River.
(c) The Ohio River.
(d) The Hudson River.

4. Who does the narrator see on the West Side Highway?
(a) His mother, in town for a surprise visit.
(b) Amanda, who is as beautiful as ever.
(c) A man peddling kabobs on a cart.
(d) A lone hooker pulling on her skirt.

5. When did the narrator propose to Amanda?
(a) He proposed after taking her out for a lovely dinner.
(b) He proposed after meeting her mother.
(c) He proposed while they rode a carriage through Central Park.
(d) He proposed after coming home late from a night with the boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator leaves for lunch, what does Megan ask him to bring back for her?

2. What does the narrator see in the window of Saks?

3. What animal does the narrator compare to Amanda?

4. In what point of view is the novel written?

5. What has happened to the narrator's proofs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the mannequin symbolic of Amanda?

2. What is the significance of the last three images in the chapter: the Colgate sign, the Statue of Liberty, and the garbage barge?

3. How are the narrator and Amanda using each other for escape?

4. Why, after all the time that has passed, is the narrator still trying to track Amanda down?

5. How is the narrator's love of fiction detrimental to his development as an adult?

6. Why does the narrator have trouble being in his apartment?

7. Are Vicky and the narrator truly fond of Tad?

8. Though Vicky seems an appropriate person for the narrator and makes him happy, what ill affect does the exhilaration of their date have on the narrator?

9. What does the narrator hope for as he turns in an article that he knows is unfinished?

10. Why does the narrator strike up a conversation with Marianne, the archivist?

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