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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. Why does Alex misuse words?
(a) He cannot spell.
(b) He is illiterate.
(c) He is not a native English speaker.
(d) Hetries to be smarter than he is.

2. When the old woman's father had the gun pointed at him and was told to do something or die, what did he do?
(a) He did as he was told.
(b) He laughed.
(c) He cursed them.
(d) He refused.

3. When the old woman saw Safran again years after the town was destroyed, what did they do?
(a) They cursed the Nazis.
(b) They cried.
(c) They told stories about the people they knew.
(d) They had lunch, a bath, and a fight.

4. Who is Little Igor?
(a) Alex's bookie.
(b) Alex's father.
(c) Alex's brother.
(d) The bad guy.

5. According to the old woman, what does Trachimbrod look like now?
(a) It is empty.
(b) It looks like any other field.
(c) It is crumbling.
(d) It has been rebuilt and doesn't look at all like it did before.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time she is twelve, how many men have proposed to Brod?

2. In the "Letter Dated 28 October 1997," what does Alex say that he catches his grandfather doing?

3. What is Yankel doing before he is told he will be a father?

4. Who thinks "This is love . . When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything" (121)?

5. What does Alex's father call him?

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