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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people in total have drinks together on the occasion when the author and Hannah first meet?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

2. 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) A poem.
(b) A chart.
(c) A newspaper article.
(d) An image.

3. 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) Cloying.
(b) Wintry.
(c) Summery.
(d) Thick.

4. How many days after the author's medical procedure does he receive a phone call about his abnormal X-ray telling him to see a neurologist?
(a) 1.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 9.

5. What food from the fancy dinner in Chelsea does the narrator refer to again and again?
(a) Shark.
(b) Tuna.
(c) Octopus.
(d) Eel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Roberto expresses a fear to the unnamed narrator about which person in his dreams coming to get him?

2. What action does the author take in his final comment to Liza during their walk, as he also tells Liza to "shut up" (64)?

3. The epigraph of the novel 10:04 cites a story by which group of people?

4. When the author reaches the bar in Dumbo, what is hanging outside the bar in lieu of a sign?

5. How many months before the agent and the narrator's fancy dinner in Chelsea did the agent tell him she thought he could 'get a strong six-figure' advance based on a story" (3) he had written for the New Yorker?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the gaslight lamp symbolize within the short story "The Golden Vanity"?

2. Name and discuss one theme presented within 10:04's epigraph.

3. What advice from Dr. Roberts does the author apply within "The Golden Vanity" and how does he apply it?

4. For what reason is the author so conflicted about the choice "between twilight sedation and local anesthesia" (62)?

5. What event does the author recall at the end of the story "The Golden Vanity," causing him to conclude that the event had never happened?

6. What injury lands Bernard in the hospital and what role do Natali and Bernard then ask the unnamed narrator to fulfill?

7. What medical procedure does the author require and why?

8. Who is Alena?

9. What is the main difference between the unnamed narrator of 10:04 and the character in the unnamed narrator's novel he calls "the author" (61)?

10. Discuss an instance when Lerner uses a simile to provide a vivid image of the setting in "The Golden Vanity."

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