1. One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.
A) EMPIRE OF THE SUN by J.G. Ballard
B) SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Gutterson
C) MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA by Arthur S. Golden
D) NORWEGIAN WOOD by Haruki Murakami

2. In one of my earliest memories, my mother and I are on the front porch of our rented Carter Avenue house watching two delivery men carry our brand new television up the steps.
A) SHE'S COME UNDONE by Wally Lamb
B) THE VIRGIN SUICIDES by Jeffrey Eugenides
C) THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks
D) JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson

3. He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eyes that's halfway hopeful.
A) MICROSERFS by Douglas Coupland
B) UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo
C) CITY OF GLASS by Paul Auster
D) WORLD'S END by T. C. Boyle

4. At first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.
A) COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier
B) SNOW IN AUGUST by Pete Hamill
C) THE NOTEBOOK by Nicholas Sparks
D) THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY by Robert James Waller

5. The Swede.
A) MASON & DIXON by Thomas Pynchon
B) JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson
C) THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS by Caleb Carr
D) AMERICAN PASTORAL by Philip Roth

6. We have been lost to each other for so long.
A) THE RED TENT by Anita Diamant
B) ALIAS GRACE by Margaret Atwood
C) THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR by Alice Walker
D) DRUMS OF AUTUMN by Diana Gabaldon

7. I'm sitting in a bar in the airport, minding my own business, trying to get psyched up for my flight, and I make the mistake of listening to one of those TV talk shows.
A) AFFAIR by Amanda Quick
B) EVENING CLASS by Maeve Binchy
C) WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY by Pearl Cleage
D) DEEP WATERS by Ann Krentz

8. My parents' paths first crossed in a museum on 23rd Street in New York.
A) PERSONAL HISTORY by Katharine Graham
B) DAUGHTERS & MOTHERS by Lauren Cohen and Jayne Wexler
C) OUTRAGEOUS ACTS AND EVERYDAY REBELLION by Gloria Steinem
D) MANHATTAN, WHEN I WAS YOUNG by Mary Cantwell

9. May in Ayeenem is a hot, brooding month.
A) THE MISTRESS OF SPICES by Chitra Banerjee Divakurani
B) THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES by Amy Tan
C) FASTING, FEASTING by Anita Desai
D) THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy

10. You know how people are always saying "I knew it by the back of my neck" when they mean those occasional scalding slashes of intuition that later prove to be true?
A) UP ISLAND by Anne Rivers Siddons
B) FAT TUESDAY by Sandra Brown
C) PRETEND YOU DON'T SEE HER by Mary Higgins Clark
D) SANCTUARY by Nora Roberts