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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His sister.
(c) His agent.
(d) His cousin.

2. When the unnamed narrator rises for his first full day in Marfa, he finds his face covered in what substance?
(a) Flour.
(b) Makeup.
(c) Blood.
(d) Paint.

3. How many days after the author's medical procedure does he receive a phone call about his abnormal X-ray telling him to see a neurologist?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

4. In what period of life had the unnamed narrator and Alex developed the inside joke focused on an elaborate hoax?
(a) In their thirties.
(b) In high school.
(c) In college.
(d) In their teens.

5. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator choose the particular book he brings along on the residency?
(a) To get it signed.
(b) To remind him why he loves writing.
(c) To use it as a model for his own book.
(d) For a teaching assignment.

Short Answer Questions

1. The pills used to treat the unnamed narrator's heart condition "have the paradoxical effect of causing a minor tremor in" (163) what part of his body?

2. Part Five of 10:04 includes a photograph of what object co-created by the unnamed narrator and Roberto?

3. Alex tells the unnamed narrator to remember that he had felt responsible for his mother's diagnosis of what malady?

4. How old is Alex turning when she and the unnamed narrator have her birthday dinner at Telepan two days after his cardiac tests?

5. When the unnamed narrator feels "too tired to write" (173) one day during his residency he watches The Passion of Joan of Arc, the favorite film of which character?

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