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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 brings a single book written by which author along with him for the period of his residency?
(a) Frost.
(b) Twain.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Capote.

2. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Infinitesimal.
(c) Huge.
(d) Giant.

3. When the unnamed narrator attends a party in Part Four, he finds that the guests in the kitchen are different from the other guests in what way?
(a) They are poets.
(b) They are novelists.
(c) They are younger.
(d) They are older.

4. What is the name of the single book the unnamed narrator brings along with him for his residency in Texas?
(a) Natural Days.
(b) Creosote Days.
(c) Specimen Days.
(d) Evolution Days.

5. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?
(a) Wisdom tooth removal.
(b) Tonsil removal.
(c) Appendectomy.
(d) Gallbladder removal.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author at dinner that which of his body fluids is "abnormal" (121)?

3. In Part Four, the unnamed narrator begins a writers' residency in which Texas city?

4. By narrative present, the unnamed narrator has been tutoring Roberto for how many months?

5. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?

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