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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. What form of communication does the unnamed narrator use to sporadically communicate with Alex during his residency?
2. What percentage of the unnamed narrator's bill at the hospital in Part Three is covered by his insurance?
3. What object inside the unnamed narrator's pocket does he keep patting as he approaches the hospital?
4. How do Alena and Peter react to the unnamed narrator's response to the art in Alena's apartment?
5. When the unnamed narrator attending the private showing of a particular artist's works, he says, "The works felt first and foremost like a" (179) what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Michael and how does the unnamed narrator meet him?
2. Why does Alex caution the unnamed narrator not to write about medical issues and what evidence does she use for her argument?
3. How does the unnamed narrator end up at a party in Part Four?
4. How does the unnamed narrator meet Noor?
5. How does the unnamed narrator's usual routine change during his writers' residency?
6. What is the unnamed narrator's specific reason for feeling the way he does about the totaled art?
7. What object does the unnamed narrator keep patting inside his pocket as he makes his way to the seventh floor of New-York Presbyterian Hospital?
8. What mistake does the intern make in Part Four and what similar mistake does the unnamed narrator make?
9. In what way does the unnamed narrator set up a dichotomy between the art of the "readymade" (133) and the totaled art in Alena's institute?
10. How does the theme of identity arise within the story about her family Noor relates to the unnamed narrator in Part Three?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that discusses the symbolism of the cover art chosen for 10:04.
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 the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within 10:04.
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