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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack realize he is doing as he gets close to his father?
(a) He is staggering to the couch.
(b) He is looking at Phoebe.
(c) He is smiling at his mother.
(d) He is crying like his father.

2. How does Yegudkin's wife survive their ordeal?
(a) She is left behind and lives in a work camp.
(b) She is blinded by the wounds she received.
(c) She is terribly crippled from the gunshots.
(d) She is hardly harmed by the soldiers.

3. Who is on the sidewalk with Jack as he leaves his lesson to go home?
(a) Smiling, excited shoppers.
(b) Smiling, happy shoppers.
(c) Dazed, irritable shoppers.
(d) Dazed, smiling shoppers.

4. In their lesson after he has played the horn for Jack, what does Yegudkin not speak of that he normally does in Jack's lessons?
(a) The stupidity of musicians.
(b) The stupidity of mankind.
(c) His love for America.
(d) The beauty of the world.

5. What other things does Dale read in public?
(a) Some of his mother's journal entries during her son's death.
(b) Some of his journal entries from his son's death.
(c) Some of Jack's poetry written when he was younger.
(d) Some of Phoebe's poems from second grade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are some of the composers Jack practices in his lessons?

2. In what orchestra does Yegudkin play before he comes to New York?

3. What is an "Alexander?"

4. Who takes Yegudkin and his wife away from their home?

5. What does Yegudkin do while Jack is playing the horn at his lesson?

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