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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Brod dress for the parade?
(a) She dresses in traditional Sloucher clothing.
(b) She dresses in traditional Upright clothing.
(c) She dresses like a princess.
(d) She dresses as a mermaid.

2. What is the official name of the shtetl?
(a) Sofiowka.
(b) Shtetl.
(c) Trachimbrod.
(d) Brod.

3. What is Alex hired to do?
(a) Drive the car.
(b) Park cars.
(c) Carry luggage.
(d) Translate.

4. Who is watching Brod when she finds Yankel?
(a) Kolker.
(b) Sofiowka.
(c) No one.
(d) Safran.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yankel do with the note that his wife left him?

2. Who says"I must say that the dream that we are our fathers made me melancholy" (54)?

3. What does Alex's father call him?

4. How many sadness's does Brod discover?

5. Why is Sammy Davis Junior, Junior with the group?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Yankel change his name? Why did he choose "Yankel"?

2. What is the relationship between Grandfather and Jonathan?

3. By the end of "The Very Rigid Search," Alex has yelled at Jonathan twice. Describe these incidents. What is significant about these outbursts?

4. Describe Brod and her relationship with the townspeople.

5. Alex tells Jonathan that he "did not amputate Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior from the story" (55) despite Jonathan's request that he do so. Why would Jonathan not want SDJJ in the story? Why does Alex keep her?

6. In "Falling in Love, 1791 -1796," we learn that Yankel's wife has left him. What are her motivations and what do you think of this?

7. Yankel lies to Brod. What does he lie about? Why does he lie? What do you think about his lies?

8. Name two things Alex claims to be, but that we might suspect he is exaggerating. Explain your response.

9. "An Overture to Encountering the Hero" is meant to be humorous. What elements make it funny? Why?

10. Describe the origin of Trachimday.

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