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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Illumination; The Wedding Reception Was So Extraordinary! Or The End of the Moment That Never Ends, 1941; The First Blasts, and Then Love, 1941; The Persnicketiness of Memory, 1941; The Beginning of the World Often Comes, 1942-1791; Letter Dated 22 Januar.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the synagogue that straddles the "Jewish/Human fault line" (10)?
(a) The Shalom Temple.
(b) The Upright Synagogue.
(c) The Sloucher Synagogue.
(d) The Trachimbrod Synagogue.

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

3. Why is Little Igor sad on his birthday?
(a) He did not get a cake.
(b) He has a broken leg.
(c) He did not get a bike.
(d) He has a broken arm.

4. When does the old woman want out of the car?
(a) When it is stopped.
(b) When they ask too many questions.
(c) When they get to Trachimbrod.
(d) When it makes noise.

5. What happens just outside of town on the night of Safran and Zosha's wedding?
(a) The Brod River floods the town.
(b) The car crashes.
(c) German bombs explode.
(d) A thunder storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is everyone in Trachimbrod doing when the Nazis come?

2. What does Alex think the limp arm symbolizes?

3. How do the people celebrate Trachimday?

4. How do Brod and Yankel earn a living?

5. What evidence does Yankel, Brod's "father," give that Brod's "mother" loved him?

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