View a FREE sample

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 evidence does Yankel, Brod's "father," give that Brod's "mother" loved him?
(a) Love letters that Yankel wrote to himself with his left hand.
(b) Jewelry her "mother" gave him.
(c) Books Brod's mother gave him.
(d) Photographs.

2. Who says"I must say that the dream that we are our fathers made me melancholy" (54)?
(a) Brod.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Alex.
(d) Jonathan.

3. Why are the Gypsy girl and Safran unable to be together?
(a) Because she is poor and he is rich.
(b) Because she is a Gypsy and he is a Jew.
(c) Because she is smart and he is not.
(d) Because of his arm.

4. How long does it take the baby to choose a name?
(a) Seven minutes.
(b) Two minutes.
(c) Two days.
(d) Seven days.

5. What synagogue does Yankel belong to?
(a) The Shalom Temple.
(b) The Slouching Synagogue.
(c) The Trachimbrod Synagogue.
(d) The Upright Synagogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which statement would most accurately describe Brod?

2. What is Jonathan afraid of?

3. What happens to Jonathan's documents?

4. Why do the people remain in Trachimbrod even thought they know the Nazi's are coming?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 271 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample