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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. What action does the author take in his final comment to Liza during their walk, as he also tells Liza to "shut up" (64)?
(a) He frowns.
(b) He sighs.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He shoves her.

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

3. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?
(a) Kroger.
(b) Alpha Beta.
(c) Whole Foods.
(d) Von's.

4. The author states that in what month, his walks with Liza are dominated by conversation about methods of sedation?
(a) December.
(b) October.
(c) April.
(d) September.

5. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?
(a) 800.
(b) 600.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 2,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The unnamed narrator recalls the day Alex told him during a walk on Atlantic that which member of her family "had been diagnosed in a late stage" (7)?

3. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator had planned to use the name Hannah in his novel to represent which of his real acquaintances?

4. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?

5. The scene at the bar in Part Two: The Golden Vanity transitions to a scene in which the author appears to speak with which character?

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