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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city is the novel 10:04 set?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York City.
(d) London.

2. Just after a photograph of an astronaut is presented in Part One, the narrator says that "an unusually large cyclonic system with a warm core was approaching" (16) what location?
(a) Boston.
(b) The West coast.
(c) New York City.
(d) The East coast.

3. What food from the fancy dinner in Chelsea does the narrator refer to again and again?
(a) Octopus.
(b) Eel.
(c) Tuna.
(d) Shark.

4. How many months before the agent and the narrator's fancy dinner in Chelsea did the agent tell him she thought he could 'get a strong six-figure' advance based on a story" (3) he had written for the New Yorker?
(a) 12.
(b) Two.
(c) Many.
(d) A few.

5. The unnamed narrator recalls his class writing letters to which historical figure when he was 7 years old at Randolph Elementary School?
(a) Baby Jessica.
(b) Christa McAuliffe.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Evel Knievel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What event had the narrator and his agent just celebrated with a fancy dinner in Chelsea?

3. In what year of college was the unnamed narrator enrolled when he met Alex?

4. Alex and the unnamed narrator first met in college in a class about what topic?

5. 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)?

(see the answer key)

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