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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to sporadically communicate with Alex during his residency?
(a) Email.
(b) Phone calls.
(c) Skype.
(d) Text messages.

2. What form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to communicate with Alena during his residency?
(a) Phone calls.
(b) None.
(c) Email.
(d) Text messages.

3. When the unnamed narrator and the distinguished female author hit it off at the literary dinner, what dessert do they share?
(a) A chocolate tart.
(b) Tiramisu.
(c) Peach pie.
(d) Chocolate crickets.

4. What task is the unnamed narrator supposed to be working on during the residency?
(a) Expanding his short story into a novel.
(b) Expanding his novel into a series.
(c) Expanding his book of poetry into a novel.
(d) Collapsing his novel into a short story.

5. The unnamed narrator must leave in the middle of Noor's story one day during their shift to check if which item is in stock?
(a) Figs.
(b) Artichokes.
(c) Dried mangoes.
(d) Prunes.

6. Alex cautions the unnamed narrator in Part Three not to write about what kinds of issues?
(a) Existential issues.
(b) Financial issues.
(c) Medical issues.
(d) Law issues.

7. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author at dinner that which of his body fluids is "abnormal" (121)?
(a) Saliva.
(b) Blood.
(c) Semen.
(d) Urine.

8. At the end of Part Four, the unnamed narrator finally figures out that the man who had greeted him at the bookstore has what name?
(a) Paul.
(b) Charles.
(c) Jeff.
(d) Norman.

9. What word does the unnamed narrator use to describe Alena's fourth-floor apartment?
(a) Tiny.
(b) Giant.
(c) Huge.
(d) Infinitesimal.

10. How many hours does it take for Michael to drive the unnamed narrator from the airport to his residency house?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

11. On what day of the week does the unnamed narrator arrive at his residency house?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Friday.

12. 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?
(a) Her teacher's son.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her teacher.
(d) Her teacher's daughter.

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

14. To what location is the unnamed narrator referring when he has the distinguished female author in hysterical laughter over the "masturbatorium" (125)?
(a) The fertility clinic.
(b) The library.
(c) The gay bar.
(d) The porn theater.

15. At which airport is the unnamed narrator picked up by "Michael, the caretaker of the residency houses" (163)?
(a) Houston.
(b) Austin.
(c) El Paso.
(d) Dallas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field does Alena's friend Peter work?

2. The unnamed narrator compares the experience of looking at Judd's works with the experience of looking at what other object?

3. To what type of restaurant did Noor's mother take her to tell her the identity of her biological father?

4. On what floor of the hospital is the fertility office, where the unnamed narrator is scheduled to give a semen sample?

5. Looking at what sight always gives the unnamed narrator a "small thrill" (107)?

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