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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 identity did Noor feel she had lost once she found out the true identity of her biological father?
3. After the art showing, when the unnamed narrator goes to dinner at Cochineal, which character gets interrupted each time he tries to contribute to the conversation?
4. What is the name of the single book the unnamed narrator brings along with him for his residency in Texas?
5. Alena puts the pieces of a shattered sculpture by which artist into the unnamed narrator's hands?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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 Lerner use irony to portray the scene of the party depicted in Part Four?
4. What is "totaled art" (130) and how had Alena acquired some of it prior to the novel's opening?
5. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?
6. How does the unnamed narrator end up at a party in Part Four?
7. How does the unnamed narrator meet Noor?
8. For what reason does the unnamed narrator travel to Texas in Part Four?
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. What are the consequences of the mistake the intern makes in Part Four?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Lerner’s novel 10:04. What message is Lerner sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
What is Lerner’s purpose for including visual images within the novel 10:04?
Essay Topic 3
What is the function of the unnamed narrator's best friend Alex within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Lerner in depicting Alex and include in your discussion the reasons that Lerner portrays Alex in these particular ways.
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