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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wedding Reception Was So Extraordinary or It All Goes Downhill After the Wedding, 1941; The Dupe of Chance, 1941-1924; The Thickness of Blood and Drama, 1934; Letter Dated 12 December 1997; What We Saw When We Saw Trachimbrod or Falling in Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "terrible thing" does Yankel feel father's have the right to do?
(a) Hit them.
(b) Feel lonely.
(c) Read their daughter's diary.
(d) Give them away at their wedding.

2. What does Yankel dream about?
(a) He dreams about traveling to America.
(b) He dreams about his work.
(c) He dreams about living forever with Brod.
(d) He dreams about his ex-wife.

3. Brod sees a picture in her telescope. What is written on the back?
(a) "Alex and Jonathan, 1997."
(b) "The Book of Antecedents."
(c) "This is me with Augustine, February 21, 1943."
(d) "I did it for myself."

4. By the time she is twelve, how many men have proposed to Brod?
(a) Three.
(b) Every man in the shtetl.
(c) Twelve.
(d) None.

5. What does Alex admit to Jonathan in the "Letter Dated 17 November 1997"?
(a) Alex admits that he has never been carnal with a woman.
(b) Alex admits that he did not like Jonathan at first.
(c) Alex admits that he cries all the time.
(d) Alex admits that he has stolen to get money for his trip to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Alex, what is Grandfather like after the trip to Lutsk?

2. What does Little Igor's father buy him in an attempt to make him feel better?

3. Who says"I must say that the dream that we are our fathers made me melancholy" (54)?

4. In "Letter Dated 12 December 1997," what does Alex say is the reason he does not remove his father from his life?

5. What does Safran get paid to do by the Sloucher congregation?

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