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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what city is the novel 10:04 set?
(a) New York City.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) London.
2. What is revealed to be the truth about Doctor Roberts's request for the author to see a neurologist?
(a) The doctor was pulling a prank.
(b) The doctor was exaggerating.
(c) The doctor was minimizing.
(d) The doctor was a figment of the author's imagination.
3. Roberto tells the unnamed narrator that he has a recurring dream about what future event?
(a) California sinking into the sea.
(b) The second Big Bang.
(c) The Second Coming of Christ.
(d) Another ice age.
4. "The author" (54) inhabits what role in the short story entitled "The Golden Vanity" that acts as the entirety of Part Two of 10:04?
(a) Fool.
(b) Voice of reason.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Protagonist.
5. The unnamed narrator recalls his class writing letters to which historical figure when he was 7 years old at Randolph Elementary School?
(a) Evel Knievel.
(b) Christa McAuliffe.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Baby Jessica.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. From what country did Roberto originally hail?
3. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?
4. At which grocery store does Alex insist on meeting the unnamed narrator so that she can buy a special kind of tea?
5. Alex and the unnamed narrator first met in college in a class about what topic?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Lerner demonstrate the closeness that exists between the unnamed narrator and his best friend Alex?
2. What medical procedure does the author require and why?
3. Name and discuss one theme presented within 10:04's epigraph.
4. Describe Natali and Bernard's accomplishments in the literary world.
5. What event have the unnamed narrator and his agent just been celebrating when the novel opens, and why is the occasion bittersweet for the unnamed narrator?
6. Provide an example when Lerner's role as a poet becomes apparent through his use of sensory details.
7. What action by the author comprises the tender moment he experiences with Liza in a taxi in Part Two: The Golden Vanity?
8. In what location does Alex ask the unnamed narrator to provide the sperm that will create her child and what is significant about her lack of eye contact in this moment?
9. How did Alex and the unnamed narrator first meet and when?
10. What situation causes the author a great deal of anxiety when the librarian arrives for their meeting?
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