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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten, Sometimes a Vague Notion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what point of view is the novel written?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person.

2. Who calls to wake up the narrator?
(a) Megan Avery.
(b) Amanda.
(c) Michael.
(d) His mother.

3. What does the phone call entail?
(a) The caller wants the narrator to provide smut on the magazine.
(b) The called wants to repair their marriage.
(c) The caller wants the narrator to come back to the apartment.
(d) The caller wants the narrator to take his old job back.

4. Of what object do the girls' eyes remind the narrator?
(a) A shiny piece of aluminum.
(b) A sandblasted shower door.
(c) A bruised apple.
(d) A Jeep Cherokee in the junkyard.

5. Where and what is Vicky studying?
(a) She is studying mathematics at Harvard.
(b) She is studying philosophy at Princeton.
(c) She is studying medicine at Yale.
(d) She is studying psychology at Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does he call the minute he wakes up?

2. What river is the narrator gazing across?

3. Why does the narrator dislike going home?

4. What is the significance of the corner of Bleecker and Cornelia street?

5. With whom does the narrator make a lunch date for the next day?

(see the answer key)

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