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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 is Alex Hardy?
(a) A fiction editor emeritus.
(b) A doorman who occasionally works the elevator.
(c) A fellow Facts Department coworker.
(d) The narrator's brother.

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

3. Do the narrator and Vicky get along?
(a) No, she is insensitive and rude.
(b) Yes, surprisingly well.
(c) Maybe, the narrator cannot tell for sure.
(d) No, they instantly dislike each other.

4. What scent does the narrator catch on Bleecker street?
(a) Coffee from open windows of an apartment building.
(b) An Italian bakery.
(c) Fresh fish.
(d) A dumpster.

5. Who has the narrator told about his split with Amanda?
(a) Only Megan Avery.
(b) Only his mother.
(c) Only his father.
(d) Only Tad Allagash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the corner of Bleecker and Cornelia street?

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

3. What item(s) is the narrator always leaving in taxis?

4. How old is the narrator?

5. To what does the narrator compare Vicky's childhood?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tad Allagash continually make up of stories of Amanda's death?

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

3. Why does the narrator feel he is so different from the Hasidic Jews he encounters on the train?

4. What insights does the reader gain about the character when he forgets to bring Megan her soda?

5. To what does the narrator attribute his need to belong and feel desired?

6. How do the narrator's inner identity and his outer persona conflict?

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

8. Why does the narrator seem surprised by his situation?

9. Why does the narrator purchase the knockoff Cartier watch on the street?

10. Does the narrator feel capable of understand other people's life experiences? Why or why not?

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