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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are Alfredo and Rodolfo?
(a) The next-door neighbors.
(b) Julian's two sons.
(c) Julian's two partners in the law firm.
(d) Julian's two brothers.

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

4. What is Julian not up to recalling?
(a) The bungee-jumping incident.
(b) The face-painting incident.
(c) His mother's admonishions about women.
(d) The incident in the House of Mirrors at the Fair.

5. Why should Julian have been prepared for what happens?
(a) Because he always sees things coming.
(b) His mother had warned him.
(c) His father tried to prepare him for anything.
(d) His friends had warned him.

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

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

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

9. What is Julian doing in Italy?
(a) He is not in Italy; he is in Paris.
(b) At a conference for work.
(c) On vacation with his sons.
(d) Having an affair.

10. Where does Julian go two nights later after talking with Libor?
(a) To the opera with a date.
(b) To meet with Sam.
(c) To dine with Libor's fellow Jews.
(d) To meet with Alfredo.

11. What does Libor think about Julian and Hephzibah?
(a) They won't last long.
(b) They seem like two ships passing in the night.
(c) They are very different and it remains to be seen if they suit each other.
(d) They are good for each other.

12. What does Julian do during the night after work?
(a) Goes to a brothel.
(b) Drinks warm beer in a pub.
(c) Goes home and sleeps.
(d) Have a series of sexual encounters with Kimberley.

13. What surprises Sam when Libor invites Sam over for dinner?
(a) That Libor does not want to go over to Julian's place.
(b) That Libor canceled his trip to Budapest.
(c) That Libor needs company twice in one week.
(d) That Libor did not enjoy his date with Emily.

14. Who is Kimberley?
(a) An American.
(b) A German.
(c) An Italian.
(d) A Russian.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the agreement Julian makes?

2. What profoundly shames Sam?

3. Who is Tamara Krausz?

4. About what do Sam and Libor debate over dinner when Julian is there?

5. What does Libor ask Julian?

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