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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yankel wear that distinguishes him from everyone else?
(a) A black tie.
(b) A blue bowler hat with a black ribbon.
(c) An incriminating abacus bead on a string.
(d) An innocent white flower in his lapel.

2. What is the official name of the shtetl?
(a) Sofiowka.
(b) Brod.
(c) Trachimbrod.
(d) Shtetl.

3. What is Yankel doing before he is told he will be a father?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Working at the flour mill.
(c) Listening to the Book of Recurrent Dreams.
(d) Flirting with another woman.

4. Who is watching Brod when she finds Yankel?
(a) Sofiowka.
(b) Safran.
(c) Kolker.
(d) No one.

5. Which statement is an accurate description of Jonathan?
(a) Jonathan is an American and a womanizer.
(b) Jonathan is Ukrainian and a vegetarian.
(c) Jonathan is Ukrainian and a pacifist.
(d) Jonathan is an American and a vegetarian.

6. What does Alex do with the money he makes?
(a) He saves it.
(b) He goes to the discotheques.
(c) He spends it on women.
(d) He gives it to Little Igor.

7. How does Brod dress for the parade?
(a) She dresses in traditional Upright clothing.
(b) She dresses like a princess.
(c) She dresses in traditional Sloucher clothing.
(d) She dresses as a mermaid.

8. How do the people celebrate Trachimday?
(a) They dance at the river.
(b) They throw sacks into the river for men to dive after.
(c) They drive their wagons into the Brod river.
(d) They dance around a bonfire.

9. According to Alex, what is Grandfather like after the trip to Lutsk?
(a) Reenergized.
(b) Younger.
(c) Defeated.
(d) Older.

10. Who says "I mount the autobus for an hour to work all day doing things I hate. You want to know why? It is for you . . . One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be a family" (2)?
(a) Alex's grandfather.
(b) Alex.
(c) Alex's father.
(d) Alex's mother.

11. According to Alex, why does Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior like Jonathan so much?
(a) She likes his voice.
(b) She likes his eyes.
(c) She likes his cologne.
(d) She likes his story.

12. What does Yankel do with the note that his wife left him?
(a) He rips it up.
(b) He tries to lose it.
(c) He keeps it in his pocket at all times.
(d) He burns it.

13. Who says"I must say that the dream that we are our fathers made me melancholy" (54)?
(a) Alex.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Brod.
(d) Jonathan.

14. Who wins the second lottery?
(a) Sofiowka.
(b) Brod.
(c) Chana.
(d) Yankel.

15. Who is the first character introduced in the book?
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Jonathen Safran Foer.
(c) Alexander Perchov.
(d) Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most important item found in the river?

2. What do the women of Trachimbrod call Brod behind her back?

3. When Alex picks up Jonathan, where does Jonathan say he wants to go?

4. What is Grandfather hired to do?

5. How do Brod and Yankel earn a living?

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