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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?
(a) The Hassidim.
(b) The Sikhs.
(c) The Turks.
(d) The shamans.

2. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum.
(b) The Guggenheim.
(c) The Smithsonian.
(d) MOMA.

3. In what year of college was the unnamed narrator enrolled when he met Alex?
(a) Sophomore.
(b) Freshman.
(c) Senior.
(d) Junior.

4. What color is the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital that has "the immediate effect of making" the unnamed narrator "feel ungainly, gangly in [his] paper gown" (5)?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

5. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?
(a) Strand.
(b) Stevens.
(c) Cummings.
(d) Bronk.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year of college was Alex enrolled when she met the unnamed narrator?

2. When the novel opens, the unnamed narrator is walking along with which character?

3. Once Alex and the unnamed narrator make it to Alex's apartment, they hear through what medium that "the storm would make landfall around 4:00 a.m." (20)?

4. Alex and the unnamed narrator "had not become best friends until [they] found [themselves] almost neighbors in" (7) which borough?

5. From what country did Roberto originally hail?

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