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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 only book the unnamed narrator brings to the residency is a book belonging to which genre?

2. How many lines of what turns out to be ketamine does the unnamed narrator do at the party in Part Four?

3. The unnamed narrator tells the distinguished female author that his next book will involve a woman lying about having which malady?

4. The unnamed narrator compares the experience of looking at Judd's works with the experience of looking at what other object?

5. The unnamed narrator guesses that the receptionist at the fertility office is how old?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Michael and how does the unnamed narrator meet him?

2. Discuss an instance when Lerner includes an allusion to one of his own literary works.

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. What is the only low point in the adventure Roberto and the unnamed narrator go on together in Part Three?

8. On what adventure does the unnamed narrator take eight-year-old Roberto in Part Three?

9. Name three excuses the unnamed narrator uses when people ask to see him during his writers' residency.

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

How is the theme of family bonds portrayed in 10:04? Examine Lerner's treatment of and messages regarding family bonds throughout the work.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Lerner's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different physical locations in a particular way within the narrative of 10:04.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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