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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Libor suggest Julian needs?
(a) A wife.
(b) A valet.
(c) A vacation.
(d) A woman.

3. What does Kimberley give Julian?
(a) A black eye on the other eye.
(b) A poem she wrote when she was twelve.
(c) Her card in case he is ever in Los Angeles.
(d) Advice about the mugging.

4. Where is Julian on a school holiday?
(a) Monaco.
(b) Paris.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Madrid.

5. What does Alfredo suggest after hearing Josephine's question?
(a) That they go to the new play in the Globe.
(b) That Josephine should forget Julian.
(c) They they invite their father to come their graduations.
(d) That they sit back down.

6. What does Sam do when he gets online?
(a) Goes through the personals.
(b) Plays poker.
(c) Reads about Israel.
(d) Reads about grief.

7. What does Julian hope to clear out of his head?
(a) The hope of meeting a woman.
(b) The hope that his sons and he will have a good time.
(c) The desire to be a real father to his sons.
(d) The nonsense that is filling it.

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

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

10. What subject did Libor teach at Sam and Julian's school?
(a) The classics.
(b) English literature.
(c) Higher mathematics.
(d) European history.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Libor disbelieve about what he and Julian discuss?

2. Who attacked Emmy's grandson?

3. How does Julian feel the morning after being mugged?

4. What does Libor tell Julian to go ahead and do?

5. To whom does Libor apologize?

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