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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object inside the unnamed narrator's pocket does he keep patting as he approaches the hospital?
(a) A pill.
(b) A coin.
(c) A ring.
(d) A check.

2. What does the unnamed narrator describe in his comments at Columbia's School of Arts as the "shadow language to Reagan's official narrative processing of the national tragedy" (114)?
(a) Challenger jokes.
(b) My Lai jokes.
(c) Iran Contra jokes.
(d) Oklahoma City bombing jokes.

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

4. The unnamed narrator compares the experience of looking at Judd's works with the experience of looking at what other object?
(a) The third eye.
(b) The Holy Grail.
(c) Stonehenge.
(d) The Grand Canyon.

5. The unnamed narrator concludes after sex with Alex that their "relationship had not been perceptibly" what "by the event" (203)?
(a) Injured.
(b) Defined.
(c) Transformed.
(d) Deepened.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator brings a book by which poet to the Mt. Sinai Hospital when he visits Bernard in Part One?

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

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

4. How old is the unnamed narrator in narrative present?

5. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?

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