View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josephine ask Julian's sons?
(a) If they are still planning a trip through Europe together.
(b) If they have heard from Julian lately.
(c) If they want to catch a film before going home.
(d) If they are going to visit their father over holiday.

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

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

4. What job has Hephzibah recently left?
(a) With the BBC.
(b) As a journalist with The Sun.
(c) With the Jewish Defamation League.
(d) As a columnist with The Guardian.

5. 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 good for each other.
(d) They are very different and it remains to be seen if they suit each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Julian is looking at violins?

2. Of what is Tyler ashamed?

3. Why should Julian have been prepared for what happens?

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

5. To whom does Libor apologize?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a Gypsy woman tell Julian when he is on a school holiday in Barcelona?

2. About what do Sam and Tyler feel ashamed?

3. How does Hephzibah cause Julian to believe his fate is playing itself out with her?

4. What agreement do Julian and Hephzibah make?

5. What does Julian not understand about his friend Libor?

6. What does Emmy ask of Libor?

7. How does Hephzibah feel about marriage to Julian?

8. Why does Julian tell Libor about the mugging, and what is Libor's response?

9. What do Julian and his sons discuss and what does Julian wonder about his sons?

10. How does Sam react to his wife's dying and death?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 824 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample