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

2. What is odd about traveling to Trachimbrod with the old woman?
(a) She rides in a wheel chair with Sammy Davis Junior, Junior on her lap.
(b) Grandfather carries her.
(c) She rides shotgun.
(d) She walks in front of the car.

3. How does Alex feel about Safran having sex with older women and women who are not his wife?
(a) He thinks it makes Safran sound like a superior person.
(b) He thinks it makes Safran sound like an inferior person.
(c) He wants to be like Safran.
(d) He thinks it is strange.

4. Who does Alex think was "born to be a writer"?
(a) Little Igor.
(b) Safran.
(c) Alex.
(d) Jonathan.

5. What do the women of Trachimbrod call Brod behind her back?
(a) Schmuck.
(b) Dirty river girl.
(c) Skinny little brat.
(d) The mermaid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Grandfather hired to do?

2. How did Jonathan's grandmother survive the war?

3. Why does Alex misuse words?

4. Who does Safran think he looks like?

5. What do both Alex and Jonathan believe about the people in the photograph?

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