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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. "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?
2. The reader is reminded that the unnamed narrator chose to use the name Liza to represent Alex due to what reason?
3. For whom is the author waiting at the start of Part Two: The Golden Vanity, which is composed of a short story written by the fictional unnamed narrator?
4. When the author reaches the bar in Dumbo, what is hanging outside the bar in lieu of a sign?
5. Alex remarks at the museum that she is how old "and single" (7) in the narrative present?
Short Essay Questions
1. What medical procedure does the author require and why?
2. Explain the art installation Alex and the unnamed narrator attend in Part One.
3. Provide an example when Lerner's role as a poet becomes apparent through his use of sensory details.
4. Who is Alena?
5. Name and discuss one theme presented within 10:04's epigraph.
6. Of what type of metafiction is Part Two: The Golden Vanity composed?
7. What situation causes the author a great deal of anxiety when the librarian arrives for their meeting?
8. Why does the unnamed narrator refer to a particular scene in Part One as having "faded from the photograph" (24)?
9. In what setting does the opening scene of "The Golden Vanity" take place?
10. How did Alex and the unnamed narrator first meet and when?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by Lerner in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of 10:04. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Lerner’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Choose an object from 10:04, such as the child-size chair, the museum, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Lerner’s use of the motif of sound within the novel 10:04.
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