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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. What does Julian wonder if he'll ever understand?
(a) Why he allows a woman to rob him.
(b) Why he is psychologically attracted to the woman who robs him.
(c) The things Finklers do and do not.
(d) Why he seemed like an easy mark to a woman.

2. How does Julian feel the morning after being mugged?
(a) Alienated.
(b) Confused.
(c) Very depressed.
(d) Somewhat cheerful.

3. What has Alfredo never told his mother or half brother?
(a) Being in love with a Jewish girl.
(b) That he is gay.
(c) About fathering a child.
(d) About his friendship with Sam.

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

5. What is one reason Julian considers for the person mugging him?
(a) Gratuitious violence.
(b) Revenge.
(c) A dare from someone else.
(d) Need.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Julian do on his first night back working?

2. What does Sam make a great show of doing?

3. What does Julian yell when he is tapped?

4. Why does Alfredo introduce Julian to Hannah?

5. What does Sam not have the courage to ask Tyler?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Sam's response to Julian's story about the mugging?

5. Why does Julian decide to go to dinner at Libor's two nights later?

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

7. How do Sam and Julian meet Libor?

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

9. How do Sam and Tyler respond to Sam's invitation to join the ASHamed Jews?

10. Why does Julian return to the scene of his mugging?

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