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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job has Hephzibah recently left?
(a) With the BBC.
(b) As a journalist with The Sun.
(c) As a columnist with The Guardian.
(d) With the Jewish Defamation League.

2. Who is Emmy Oppenstein?
(a) A woman who Libor loved many decades ago.
(b) An American who is visiting Libor's sister in London.
(c) Malkie's best friend when Malkie was a child.
(d) A columnist for a well-known Jewish magazine.

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

4. To whom did Libor make a promise to live for a certain event?
(a) His daughter.
(b) Malkie.
(c) Sam.
(d) His son.

5. For what is Hephzibah not looking?
(a) A live-in arrangement.
(b) A lover.
(c) A non-Jew.
(d) A third husband.

6. What happens when Julian is on his way home from dinner with friends?
(a) He is almost hit by a taxi.
(b) He falls and breaks his arm.
(c) He is shot at.
(d) He is attacked.

7. What does Julian not understand about his friend Libor?
(a) Why Libor does not get rid of his deceased wife's things.
(b) Why Libor has decided to emmigrate to the United States.
(c) Why Libor will not remarry.
(d) How Libor survives the death of his wife.

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

9. What does Hephzibah do after leaving her last job?
(a) She is living off a trust from her grandmother.
(b) She is writing a novel.
(c) She is researching for writing a history of the Anglo-Jewish culture.
(d) Sets up a museum of Anglo-Jewish culture.

10. What is Julian doing when someone taps him on the shoulder?
(a) Looking in the window at J. P. Guivier's.
(b) Trying to get a hold of his umbrella as it is caught by the wind.
(c) Tying his shoe in front of Stoleman's.
(d) Looking in the window at Markham's.

11. What is the agreement Julian makes?
(a) He will begin visiting his sons' mothers.
(b) He will make a decision after vactioning with his sons.
(c) He will stop visiting his sons' mothers.
(d) He will stop seeing his Jewish friends.

12. To whom does Libor apologize?
(a) Julian.
(b) Sam.
(c) No one.
(d) Emily.

13. What rekindles the affection among Libor, Sam and Julian?
(a) The deaths of their wives.
(b) A reunion at the school.
(c) A mutual interest in a local artist.
(d) A television special about friendship.

14. What does Hephzibah ask Julian to help her do?
(a) Set up a museum.
(b) Prepare for a photography show.
(c) Move to a larger apartment.
(d) Research for her historic novel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What profoundly shames Sam?

2. What does Julian wonder about his sons?

3. Who attacked Emmy's grandson?

4. What does Julian visit again?

5. What does Julian do on his first night back working?

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