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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Libor realize as he is on his first date?
(a) He just wants Malkie back.
(b) He can't quite remember Malkie's face.
(c) He is more than ready to find a second wife.
(d) He feels the need for sex but not intimacy.

2. What does Julian agree to do with Libor?
(a) Go to the play at the Globe.
(b) Go to a lecture at Oxford.
(c) Visit an ill colleague in the hospital.
(d) Go back to Libor's place and talk about Judith.

3. About what do Sam and Libor debate over dinner when Julian is there?
(a) War.
(b) Captial punishment.
(c) Israel and Judaism.
(d) Theater.

4. What happened to Emmy's grandson?
(a) He was killed in Istanbul.
(b) He was attacked in San Franciso last month.
(c) He was attacked and blinded.
(d) He was killed in a raid in Jerusalem.

5. Why does Sam have a falling out with the group?
(a) Over an article one of them writes.
(b) Over the wording of a resolution.
(c) Over a boycott.
(d) He does not have a falling out.

6. Who is Malkie?
(a) Libor's deceased wife.
(b) Libor's Maltese dog.
(c) Sam's current wife.
(d) Julian's ex-wife.

7. Why does Alfredo introduce Julian to Hannah?
(a) In the hopes their father will be distracted by her and not interact with them.
(b) To mock his father.
(c) In the hopes their father will find a good woman to marry.
(d) Alfredo says they are both Jews.

8. What do Tyler and Julian think Sam deserved?
(a) Tyler having sex with Julian.
(b) Tyler dying.
(c) Julian having more money.
(d) Sam being impotent.

9. Why does Julian refuse Libor's dinner invitation a week after the mugging?
(a) Julian has a date.
(b) Julian is afraid to go out alone.
(c) Julian is going to Paris.
(d) Julian still has a black eye and does not want Libor to see it.

10. What does Julian think Tyler should not have to do?
(a) Marry for respectability.
(b) Become a mother.
(c) Suffer.
(d) Stay with Sam if she's unhappy.

11. Who is Tamara Krausz?
(a) A well-known academic among the ASHamed Jews.
(b) A woman who dislikes Sam's attitude.
(c) A woman who has caught Libor's eye.
(d) A woman who has caught Sam's eye.

12. What does Libor tell Julian to cease doing?
(a) Visiting his son's mothers on the same day.
(b) Spoiling his sons with too much money.
(c) Speculating about being Jewish.
(d) Going out late at night to draw a mugger.

13. Of what is Tyler ashamed?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Sam's public display of shame.
(c) Sam's denial of Tyler's illness in public.
(d) Sam's being photographed in public with a mistress.

14. What left Sam more angry than sad?
(a) The premature death of Tyler.
(b) That Malkie did not say anything of her feelings to Libor.
(c) That his son's death was so senseless.
(d) That Tyler got sick and died so quickly.

15. What does Sam say Julian wants to be?
(a) A superman.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A Jew.
(d) A hero.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Sam when Libor invites Sam over for dinner?

2. What is Julian doing in Italy?

3. Why should Julian have been prepared for what happens?

4. Who does Libor suggest Julian telephone?

5. Who is Emmy Oppenstein?

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