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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts Sam's plans to play online poker?
(a) A call from his ex-wife.
(b) A call from his daughter.
(c) A call from Libor.
(d) A call from his mother.

2. What debate started the scuffle outside the Oxford Union?
(a) About the newest developments in Iran.
(b) About Israel forfeiting its right to exist.
(c) About the way the Americans support Israel no matter what.
(d) About whether the Palestinians have the right to exist.

3. Where is the train headed?
(a) East Sussex.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Eastbourne.
(d) Heathrow.

4. How many times does Hephzibah sigh when Julian asks her about Sam?
(a) 5.
(b) None.
(c) 3.
(d) Once.

5. Why does Sam drive to Oxford?
(a) He's meeting a key member of the ASH group.
(b) He cannot reach his son or daughter on the phone.
(c) He is meeting the co-author of a book he is writing.
(d) He's meeting a woman who has written an article that appeals to him.

6. What does Julian ask Hephzibah about Jews?
(a) If Jews all want to have a Jewish state.
(b) If there is a special bond between Jews.
(c) If Jews feel superior to others.
(d) If Jews truly accept gentiles who convert.

7. Besides Libor and Tyler, who else can Sam mourn while saying Kaddish?
(a) His parents.
(b) The world.
(c) All Jewish people.
(d) His own failures.

8. What does Libor do in Beachy Head?
(a) Meets Emmy.
(b) Rents a room in a motel on the beach.
(c) Calls his children.
(d) Drinks and look out to sea.

9. What does Julian think to himself that he is good at while sitting in his and Hephzibah's bedroom?
(a) Hurting himself.
(b) Messing up.
(c) Goodbyes.
(d) Hurting others.

10. Where does Libor invite Emmy to meet him?
(a) Near Chaires Cross Road.
(b) At Trafalgar Square.
(c) Near Lambeth bridge.
(d) At the Ritz.

11. What does Hephzibah believe about Libor?
(a) He had not intended to actually die.
(b) He went for a walk and simply fell.
(c) He was too good to stay in the world.
(d) He could not believe in life after Malkie dies.

12. About what propensity of Julian's does Hephzibah worry?
(a) Titillation about odd people.
(b) Being too dependent on her opinions.
(c) Gloominess.
(d) Being overly optimistic.

13. Where does Julian nap?
(a) No where.
(b) At the sleezy motel.
(c) On a park bench.
(d) In the monkey house at the zoo.

14. What does Emmy say Libor expects of Jews?
(a) For them to give up their traditions.
(b) For them to live differently than others.
(c) For them to always be persecuted.
(d) For them to stay too boudn by their traditions.

15. Who does Libor sit opposite of on a bus one day?
(a) Emmy.
(b) Sam.
(c) Alfredo.
(d) Julian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hephzibah pray at home?

2. Who do Sam, Julian and Hephzibah encounter after a play?

3. What happens to Meryer Abramsky and his family?

4. What does Libor say all Julian is?

5. What does Hephzibah suggest Julian do as assistant curator?

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