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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

2. To what hospital does the unnamed narrator go at the beginning of Part Three?
(a) New-York Presbyterian Hospital.
(b) St. Christopher Hospital.
(c) El Camino Hospital.
(d) Kaiser-Permanente Hospital.

3. What body of water do Liza and the author reach just before the author says he has decided to opt for local anesthesia?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A river.
(c) A lake.
(d) A bay.

4. When the unnamed narrator and Alex visit with Emma and Rick, they have another intrauterine insemination (IUI) scheduled in how many days?
(a) 21.
(b) A dozen.
(c) A few.
(d) A couple.

5. About what subject does the unnamed narrator pontificate when the intern begs him to speak aloud?
(a) The spawning of salmon.
(b) Pluto's demoted status.
(c) The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
(d) The qualities of the equator.

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. The distinguished female author tells the unnamed narrator that when she was in the first grade, she openly laughed when given the news that which person had died?

3. In what magazine was the section of the text entitled Part Two: The Golden Vanity originally published as a short story?

4. For what reason do Alex and the unnamed narrator travel from Brooklyn to Manhattan during a partial blackout caused by the storm?

5. The unnamed narrator wonders in Part Five if which character would be offended if he put his story about Ashley into a novel?

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