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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. What does Little Igor's father buy him in an attempt to make him feel better?
(a) A car.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A horse.
(d) A trip.

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

3. 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)?
(a) Grandfather.
(b) Brod.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Alex.

4. In "The Beginning of the World Often Comes," who finds debris in the river?
(a) Hannah and Chana.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Brod.
(d) Alex.

5. How do Brod and Yankel earn a living?
(a) They work in the public library.
(b) They work in the field.
(c) They fix anything from broken jars to broken doors.
(d) They rent books from their personal library to the town people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Alex name a town if given the chance?

2. Who wrote the "Letter Dated 23 September 1997"?

3. Who is nicknamed the "Clumsy One?"

4. What "terrible thing" does Yankel feel father's have the right to do?

5. Where does Alex keep the money that he saves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Sofiowka a reliable character? How do you know? Give details from the story.

2. Why does Alex claim it would it be "cinchier" for Jonathan to follow his dream?

3. What clues tell the reader that Brod is having a vision of the future in "Recurrent Secrets, 1791-1943"?

4. What types of things does Yankel write in order to remember who he is? Why does he write about these memories?

5. Describe Yankel's internal and external characteristics.

6. What ailment does Grandfather claim to have and why? How do you know he is lying?

7. 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?

8. Describe the origin of Trachimday.

9. Describe how Yankel's feels when he finds out that he is going to be a father.

10. Foer writes that Brod could "never be happy and honest at the same time" (79). What does this mean? Give examples from the text.

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