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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Hephzibah tell Julian when the vandalism recurs?
(a) She's afraid he will leave her.
(b) She doesn't want to worry him.
(c) She's afraid he will stay at the museum all night.
(d) She thinks he's too gloomy as it is.

2. To what does Julian dream he is summoned?
(a) A judge.
(b) A inquest.
(c) A death chamber.
(d) A parody of death.

3. Where does Sam go after he stops at his son's place?
(a) Blaise's apartment.
(b) His ex-wife's apartment.
(c) The Religion Department at Oxford.
(d) The Classics Department at Oxford.

4. Who introduces herself to Sam and Julian?
(a) Libor's sister.
(b) Libor's brother.
(c) Libor's daughter.
(d) Emmy.

5. What does Alvin try to create?
(a) A faux foreskin.
(b) A business blog.
(c) A news bureau.
(d) A non-profit charitable organization.

6. What does Julian think to himself that he is good at while sitting in his and Hephzibah's bedroom?
(a) Messing up.
(b) Hurting himself.
(c) Goodbyes.
(d) Hurting others.

7. Where does Sam go to say Kaddish?
(a) The synagogue.
(b) Anywhere he is.
(c) Libor's home.
(d) The park.

8. What debate started the scuffle outside the Oxford Union?
(a) About the way the Americans support Israel no matter what.
(b) About Israel forfeiting its right to exist.
(c) About the newest developments in Iran.
(d) About whether the Palestinians have the right to exist.

9. Why does Hephzibah feel paranoid?
(a) Because of Julian's close questioning.
(b) Because of the loss in the vandalism.
(c) Because a Jewish boy is beaten down the street from the museum.
(d) Because of Sam showing up daily at the musem.

10. What happens to an Arab man, woman and child on a bus?
(a) They are bullied by some Israeli soldiers.
(b) They are arrested for eating on the bus.
(c) Meryer Abramsky shoots them.
(d) They are forced to move from their ancestral home in Palestine.

11. What does Libor say Julian is cruel to do?
(a) Tell Libor about Tyler.
(b) Refuse to help Julian's daughter through college.
(c) Doubt Hephzibah.
(d) Refuse to visit Alfredo.

12. In what does Julian think Sam is interested?
(a) Marrying again.
(b) Moving to Israel.
(c) Moving to Palestine.
(d) Hephzibah.

13. Who does Sam go to find?
(a) His son.
(b) Libor.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) His daughter.

14. Where does Julian nap?
(a) In the monkey house at the zoo.
(b) No where.
(c) On a park bench.
(d) At the sleezy motel.

15. What does Libor say all Julian is?
(a) Anti-gentile.
(b) Anti-everything.
(c) A destroyer.
(d) Anti-Semitic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hephzibah feeling as she walks to the museum a week after the play?

2. In what part of being Jewish does Julian feel he is deficient?

3. How does Julian cause Libor to cry?

4. About what propensity of Julian's does Hephzibah worry?

5. Where does Sam find his son?

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