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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?
(a) The doctor was a figment of the author's imagination.
(b) The doctor was minimizing.
(c) The doctor was exaggerating.
(d) The doctor was pulling a prank.

2. When the unnamed narrator rises for his first full day in Marfa, he finds his face covered in what substance?
(a) Blood.
(b) Flour.
(c) Makeup.
(d) Paint.

3. In Part Four, the unnamed narrator begins a writers' residency in which Texas city?
(a) Dallas.
(b) Austin.
(c) San Antonio.
(d) Marfa.

4. What is the only element of the physical world that gives the unnamed narrator a feeling of excitement?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The natural world.
(c) Built space.
(d) The sky.

5. During the author's final walk with Liza before he must call the doctor to choose a form of sedation, the light is described in what way?
(a) Wintry.
(b) Autumnal.
(c) Haunting.
(d) Summery.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?

4. The author notices that Hannah has what color hair, as well as a silver nose ring?

5. When the unnamed narrator and the distinguished female author hit it off at the literary dinner, what dessert do they share?

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