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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. What percentage of the unnamed narrator's bill at the hospital in Part Three is covered by his insurance?
(a) 50.
(b) 70.
(c) 0.
(d) 20.

2. The unnamed narrator states that "the most riveting and disturbing and particular passages" of his one book "are about" (166) which topic?
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The French-Indian War.

3. What does the unnamed narrator describe in his comments at Columbia's School of Arts as the "shadow language to Reagan's official narrative processing of the national tragedy" (114)?
(a) My Lai jokes.
(b) Iran Contra jokes.
(c) Challenger jokes.
(d) Oklahoma City bombing jokes.

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

5. Noor tells the unnamed narrator that her late father had shared a "strong sense" of what kind of "identity" (99) with her?
(a) Chilean.
(b) Lebanese.
(c) Iranian.
(d) Cuban.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what hospital does the unnamed narrator go at the beginning of Part Three?

2. On what day of the week does the unnamed narrator arrive at his residency house?

3. The unnamed narrator brings a single book written by which author along with him for the period of his residency?

4. Alena recently acquired a great deal of what type of art?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the unnamed narrator end up at a party in Part Four?

2. What is the unnamed narrator's specific reason for feeling the way he does about the totaled art?

3. What mistake does the intern make in Part Four and what similar mistake does the unnamed narrator make?

4. What are the consequences of the mistake the intern makes in Part Four?

5. How does Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?

6. Why does Alex caution the unnamed narrator not to write about medical issues and what evidence does she use for her argument?

7. How does the theme of identity arise within the story about her family Noor relates to the unnamed narrator in Part Three?

8. For what purpose does the unnamed narrator visit the seventh floor of New-York Presbyterian Hospital at the beginning of Part Three?

9. For what reason does the unnamed narrator travel to Texas in Part Four?

10. The unnamed narrator finds himself working diligently in Texas, but "on the wrong thing" (170). What other piece does he work on instead?

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