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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whose apartment does the unnamed narrator go after he leaves the literary dinner in Part Three?
(a) Alex.
(b) Sharon.
(c) Alena.
(d) Jon.

2. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator choose the particular book he brings along on the residency?
(a) For a teaching assignment.
(b) To use it as a model for his own book.
(c) To get it signed.
(d) To remind him why he loves writing.

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

4. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?
(a) The shamans.
(b) The Sikhs.
(c) The Hassidim.
(d) The Turks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the unnamed narrator feels "too tired to write" (173) one day during his residency he watches The Passion of Joan of Arc, the favorite film of which character?

2. What is the name of the old man who does so much cocaine at the party that it worries the unnamed narrator?

3. 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?

4. What food from the fancy dinner in Chelsea does the narrator refer to again and again?

5. The unnamed narrator remarks that the chair at Mount Sinai Hospital had "been designed for" (5) whom?

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