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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what else is Sam ashamed?
(a) His lack of creative ability.
(b) His balding pate.
(c) His circumsized penis.
(d) His short stature.

2. What does Julian wonder about his sons?
(a) If his sons scorn him.
(b) If they really want to be in Paris with him.
(c) If they are anti-Semites.
(d) If they would have rather gone to Italy.

3. What does Libor tell Julian to cease doing?
(a) Spoiling his sons with too much money.
(b) Speculating about being Jewish.
(c) Visiting his son's mothers on the same day.
(d) Going out late at night to draw a mugger.

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

5. What puzzles Julian about Kimberley and the mugger?
(a) They are both German.
(b) They both mistook him for a Jew.
(c) They look similar.
(d) They both gave him black eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Julian doing when someone taps him on the shoulder?

2. For what is Hephzibah not looking?

3. What does Julian mull over?

4. What profoundly shames Sam?

5. What is the agreement Julian makes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to Julian one late summer evening in London on his way home?

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

5. Why doesn't Julian accept a dinner invitation from Libor a week after Julian's mugging?

6. What does Julian realize about Kimberly and how does that puzzle him?

7. Who is Emmy Oppenstein and how does Libor reconnect with her?

8. About what do Sam and Tyler feel ashamed?

9. What do Tyler and Julian do and what is their thought about it?

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

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