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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: The Golden Vanity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what country did Roberto originally hail?
(a) Venezuela.
(b) Cuba.
(c) San Salvador.
(d) Peru.

2. During the first meeting of Hannah and the author, she explains what term to him that "he'd never heard" (68)?
(a) Apoplexy.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Mercurochrome.
(d) Pareidolia.

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

4. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Joseph Kony.
(c) Polpot.
(d) The Tooth Fairy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?

2. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?

3. What action does the author take in his final comment to Liza during their walk, as he also tells Liza to "shut up" (64)?

4. What object does the author encounter along his walk that makes him feel as if it is exists "at once in the present and in various pasts" (66)?

5. The unnamed narrator and Alex are looking at a painting of which historical figure when she asks him to provide the sperm for her child?

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