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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author that his next book will involve a woman lying about having which malady?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Multiple sclerosis.
(c) Lupus.
(d) Cancer.
2. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the heat is described in what way?
(a) Cloying.
(b) Wintry.
(c) Summery.
(d) Thick.
3. Alena puts the pieces of a shattered sculpture by which artist into the unnamed narrator's hands?
(a) Henri Matisse.
(b) Andy Warhol.
(c) Jeff Koons.
(d) Salvador Dali.
4. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?
(a) Inducing amnesia.
(b) Going to sleep.
(c) Taking a drug.
(d) Indulging his desire for comfort.
5. The unnamed narrator states in Part Three that he had been talking about his "performance anxiety with Jon and Sharon and Alena" (89) for how many weeks prior to his appointment to give a semen sample?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.
Short Answer Questions
1. After the art showing, when the unnamed narrator goes to dinner at Cochineal, which character gets interrupted each time he tries to contribute to the conversation?
2. What is NOT a year named within the author's mention of "various pasts" (66) being connected by a single object?
3. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?
4. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator choose the particular book he brings along on the residency?
5. When the scene of the first meeting of Hannah and the author comes to an end, what is included just prior to the page break?
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