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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nathan's response when a stranger begins a conversation with him?
(a) He laughs at the stranger.
(b) He tries to halt the conversation.
(c) He joins in the conversation.
(d) He yells at the stranger.

2. Who says Maria's Jewish friend smells?
(a) Henry.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Maria.
(d) Her father.

3. What does Sarah call Nathan?
(a) A jerk.
(b) A bastard.
(c) A pig.
(d) A moral guinea pig.

4. Who does Jimmy believe will help him in his plans on the airplane?
(a) The pilot.
(b) Henry.
(c) Nathan.
(d) The stuardess.

5. Nathan flew out of the airport in __________.
(a) Tel Aviv.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) London.
(d) Los Angeles.

6. Who approaches Nathan in church?
(a) Georgina.
(b) Maria.
(c) Maria's mother.
(d) Sarah.

7. Whom does Sarah label as anti-semitic?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Georgina.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Maria.

8. What will cause problems between Nathan and Maria's mother?
(a) Being the father to Maria's child.
(b) Nathan trying to prevent the new baby from being christened.
(c) Nathan trying to prevent the new baby from Maria's mother.
(d) Marrying Maria.

9. Who recognizes Henry as Nathan's brother?
(a) A hairless man.
(b) A bearded man.
(c) A heavy man.
(d) A skinny man.

10. What does Nathan describe in a letter he writes on an airplane?
(a) Henry's surgery.
(b) Henry's medical condition.
(c) Henry's current state.
(d) Henry's children.

11. Whose unhappy marriage and divorce does Nathan think about while in church?
(a) Maria's parents.
(b) His parents.
(c) Henry and Carol.
(d) Maria's.

12. What do people ask Maria and Nathan about while in church?
(a) Their house rennovations.
(b) Their expected child.
(c) Their affair.
(d) Their marriage.

13. What place does Jimmy Ben-Joseph want to have closed?
(a) An Israeli museum.
(b) A Jewish synogogue.
(c) A baseball stadium.
(d) A Hebrew college.

14. What does Nathan inform Henry he has tried diligently to do?
(a) Kill Henry.
(b) Bring Henry home.
(c) Help Henry.
(d) Understand Henry's point of view.

15. What is the first section of Nathan's manuscript titled?
(a) My heart.
(b) Medicine.
(c) The problem.
(d) Basel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who feels "under pressure"?

2. Whose remarks trouble Nathan?

3. Whose letter annoys Nathan?

4. What is the Jewish man Nathan sits next to in "Part 3 A Loft, pages 141-163" doing?

5. Whose temptations differ from Henry's after being put on heart medication?

(see the answer keys)

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