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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During the first meeting of Hannah and the author, she explains what term to him that "he'd never heard" (68)?
(a) Pareidolia.
(b) Mercurochrome.
(c) Apoplexy.
(d) Synesthesia.

3. In what year of college was the unnamed narrator enrolled when he met Alex?
(a) Freshman.
(b) Senior.
(c) Sophomore.
(d) Junior.

4. Liza tells the author that he would save how many dollars by opting for local anesthesia?
(a) $300.
(b) $150.
(c) $200.
(d) $100.

5. Part Two: The Golden Vanity is an excerpt of which character's fictional writing?
(a) Natali.
(b) Alex.
(c) The unnamed narrator.
(d) Bernard.

6. When the scene of the first meeting of Hannah and the author comes to an end, what is included just prior to the page break?
(a) An image.
(b) A newspaper article.
(c) A chart.
(d) A poem.

7. How old is the third-grader named Roberto?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

8. The unnamed narrator was recently diagnosed with a defect of what body part?
(a) The spine.
(b) The heart.
(c) The liver.
(d) The kidney.

9. Which museum do the unnamed narrator and Alex often visit together on weekday afternoons?
(a) The Metropolitan Museum.
(b) The Guggenheim.
(c) MOMA.
(d) The Smithsonian.

10. How many images in total are presented within Part One of 10:04?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

11. Once Alex and the unnamed narrator make it to Alex's apartment, they hear through what medium that "the storm would make landfall around 4:00 a.m." (20)?
(a) Newspaper.
(b) Radio.
(c) Podcast.
(d) Television.

12. Of how many square feet is the author's third floor apartment composed?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 800.
(c) 600.
(d) 1,200.

13. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?
(a) Joseph Kony.
(b) The Tooth Fairy.
(c) Polpot.
(d) Hitler.

14. The author worries about "what kind of precedent [he is] establishing" (63) if he deals with the medical operation by taking what action?
(a) Inducing amnesia.
(b) Going to sleep.
(c) Indulging his desire for comfort.
(d) Taking a drug.

15. Liza is described by the author as having a tendency to "begin an activity" (62) by taking what action?
(a) Listing its dangers.
(b) Claiming that she would have no part in it.
(c) Enlisting others to help.
(d) Listing its pros and cons.

Short Answer Questions

1. The unnamed narrator recalls the day Alex told him during a walk on Atlantic that which member of her family "had been diagnosed in a late stage" (7)?

2. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?

3. The author sets up an appointment to have what procedure performed?

4. How many hours in advance of the author's medical appointment must he call to choose a method of sedation?

5. 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)?

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