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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Jewish group Sam belongs to upset with him?
(a) For bringing a non-Jew to a meeting.
(b) For suggesting the group is impotent.
(c) For changing the name of the group without consulting the others.
(d) For publishing an article that purports to be the view of the group.

2. What does Sam become as an adult?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) An accountant.
(c) A well-known television personality.
(d) A judge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How old is Emmy's grandson?
(a) 27.
(b) 31.
(c) 18.
(d) 22.

10. 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.

11. What name does Sam suggest for a group of radical Jews?
(a) Nothing.
(b) UPINarmed Jews.
(c) ASHamed Jews.
(d) RAD Jews.

12. What does Sam do after Libor leaves?
(a) Goes to a neighborhood pub.
(b) Goes to sleep.
(c) Looks through Tyler's things.
(d) Works on his oil painting.

13. What does Libor disbelieve about what he and Julian discuss?
(a) That the mugger thought he was Jewish.
(b) That a woman would mug a man.
(c) That Julian's nose is not broken.
(d) That Julian does not call the police.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is Tyler ashamed?

2. What do Tyler and Julian think Sam deserved?

3. With whom does Julian leave the party?

4. What does Julian mull over?

5. What signs from childhood does Julian think about?

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