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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who visits the Wailing Wall?
(a) Shuki.
(b) Lippman.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Henry.

2. What does Nathan tell Shuki is his reason for being in Israel?
(a) To find love.
(b) To find Henry.
(c) The find religion.
(d) To find strength.

3. Why is Maria worried about Nathan living in England?
(a) She feels Nathan will leave her.
(b) She feels Nathan will suffocate her.
(c) She feels Nathan will become too attached to her.
(d) She feels Nathan's writing will suffer.

4. Who is shocked after the dinner at Lippman's?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Henry.
(d) Shuki.

5. Who asks Nathan if he has any frame of reference besides New Jersey?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Lippman.
(c) Shuki.
(d) Henry.

6. With whom does Henry go to Israel?
(a) His children.
(b) His dental colleagues.
(c) Carol.
(d) Nathan.

7. Who does Henry travel to see?
(a) Carol.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Bailey.
(d) Maria.

8. What does Nathan wish he had been able to dissuade Henry from doing?
(a) From listening to his co-worker.
(b) From quitting his job.
(c) From not getting surgery.
(d) From starting an affair.

9. Who is a fan of Nathan's writing?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) Jarod.
(c) Joseph Benny.
(d) Jimmy Ben-Joseph.

10. What does Lippman show Nathan when they speak?
(a) His knife collection.
(b) His music collection.
(c) His book collection.
(d) His army badges.

11. Who says their life in New Jersey was pointless and misdirected?
(a) Henry.
(b) Carol.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Shuki.

12. Who is Maria's daughter?
(a) Layla.
(b) Phoebe.
(c) Maddie.
(d) Bailey.

13. Whom does Nathan meet while returning to the settlement?
(a) Shuki.
(b) Jimmy Ben-Joseph.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Lippman.

14. What is Henry's profession?
(a) A clerk.
(b) A dentist.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A doctor.

15. What does Nathan tell Henry he is becoming?
(a) A decadent Jew.
(b) A stubborn Jew.
(c) A fanatical Jew.
(d) An unruly Jew.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nathan compares Lippman to ______________.

2. Who is Maria?

3. What causes Henry to become depressed?

4. Who is in the photograph that Nathan's family is proud of?

5. Who is too shaken to deliver a eulogy?

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