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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Book of Recurrent Dreams, 1791; Falling in Love, 1791-1796; Another Lottery, 1791; Letter Dated 23 September 1997; Going Forth to Lutsk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ailment does Grandfather claim to have?
(a) He claims to be deaf.
(b) He claims to be blind.
(c) He claims to have a broken toe.
(d) He claims to have a trick knee.

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

3. Who said "We must go backward in order to go forward" (37)?
(a) The Rabbi.
(b) Yankel.
(c) Didl.
(d) Jonathan.

4. What does Sammy Davis Junior, Junior do to the shirt that she was given to look official?
(a) Nothing.
(b) She ripped it.
(c) She has thrown it away.
(d) She eats part of it.

5. 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 mother.
(b) Alex.
(c) Alex's father.
(d) Alex's grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the synagogue that straddles the "Jewish/Human fault line" (10)?

2. Why does Alex misuse words?

3. What lie does Yankel tell himself?

4. Who says "the bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive in life is something you have earned" (68)?

5. What is the official name of the shtetl?

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