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. How old is Little Igor?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) Five.
(d) Fourteen.

2. When Grandfather asks Alex for his life-savings, what does Alex ask for in exchange?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) The car.
(c) Sammy Davis Junior, Junior.
(d) To go with Grandfather.

3. What does Yankel dream about?
(a) He dreams about traveling to America.
(b) He dreams about his work.
(c) He dreams about living forever with Brod.
(d) He dreams about his ex-wife.

4. Concerning Jonathan's novel, what does Alex ask Jonathan to do?
(a) He asks Jonathan to not write about his Grandfather's past.
(b) He asks Jonathan to have Grandfather and Augustine converse.
(c) He asks Jonathan to write about his Grandfather's past.
(d) He asks Jonathan to delete Augustine from the story.

5. The old woman tells that when the Nazis came all the men were lined up and told to do what or their family would die?
(a) Choose who would get shot.
(b) Give them their valuables.
(c) Spit on the Torah.
(d) Identify a Jewish person.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. What does Grandfather want to do with Alex's money?

3. What is odd about traveling to Trachimbrod with the old woman?

4. In "The Very Rigid Search," what does Alex say that makes the old woman admit she knows about Trachimbrod?

5. How do Brod and Yankel earn a living?

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