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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must Libor promise if he goes to Sam's place for Chinese food?
(a) To bring some of his vintage wine.
(b) Not to talk about Israel.
(c) To bring a date.
(d) Not to talk about Malkie.

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

3. 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.

4. How long before Tyler's death did Sam appear on "Desert Island Discs"?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 months.

5. What does Emmy suggest Libor do?
(a) See a grief counselor.
(b) Come with her to the United States.
(c) Write about Malkie.
(d) Come with her to Prague.

6. About what is Hephzibah not certain?
(a) Her feelings about Julian's sons.
(b) Her feelings about being involved with a Gentile.
(c) Julian's certainty.
(d) Her feelings about Julian.

7. What are Julian's sons doing just as someone is tapping Julian on the shoulder?
(a) Playing cricket on opposing teams.
(b) Paying for dinner with their mothers.
(c) Playing soccer on opposing teams.
(d) Sitting in classes at different colleges.

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

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

10. What does Julian visit again?
(a) Tyler's grave.
(b) The woman who held the lavish party.
(c) His mother's grave.
(d) The place of his mugging.

11. With whom might Julian move in?
(a) Judith.
(b) Hephzibah.
(c) Suzanne.
(d) No one.

12. What disconcerts Julian when he introduces Hephzibah to Sam and Libor?
(a) That Libor is indifferent to Hephzibah.
(b) That Sam flirts continuously with Hephzibah.
(c) That Sam and Hephzibah seem to speak the secret language of the Jews.
(d) That Sam is rude to Hephzibah.

13. Who does Libor suggest Julian telephone?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) A family friend or relative.
(c) His childhood sweetheart.
(d) A medical doctor.

14. How does Julian feel the morning after being mugged?
(a) Confused.
(b) Very depressed.
(c) Somewhat cheerful.
(d) Alienated.

15. What profoundly shames Sam?
(a) That his parents were avid Zionists.
(b) That his grandfather was in the Israeli Parliment.
(c) The way the Jews handled Palestine.
(d) That Tyler refused to support him publicly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Julian go two nights later after talking with Libor?

2. Of what is Tyler ashamed?

3. What does Sam make a great show of doing?

4. Where is Julian on a school holiday?

5. What does Julian wonder about his sons?

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