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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through My Father's Tent.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Alma read?
(a) People moving to Chile from Poland.
(b) The love of a woman for a man.
(c) people talking with their hands and a man who thought he was made of glass.
(d) A woman who is leaving a man she does not love.

2. Over what does Alma muse?
(a) Why Charlotte misses David.
(b) Why David gave Charlotte the book.
(c) Why Alma and Leo fall in love.
(d) Why the author kept the name Alma.

3. What does Alma add to the list of clues?
(a) David.
(b) Alma.
(c) Zvi.
(d) Leo.

4. What does Leo do after his heart attack?
(a) He resumes writing.
(b) He stops writing.
(c) He contacts Alma.
(d) He calls his son.

5. How does Rosa help Zvi?
(a) She helps translate the book from Yiddish into Spanish.
(b) She helps him translate the book from German into Spanish.
(c) She helps him get into contact with Leo.
(d) She helps him write his book.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do the Nazis invade the boy's hometown of Slonim?

2. Why does Leo Gursky respond to an ad for nude models?

3. Uncle Julian, Charlotte's brother, sent Alma her father's old Swiss Army knife, saying it helps one survive in the wilderness, and that her father was a great outdoors man. What does Alma decide to do?

4. Leo looks under his pillow. What does he find?

5. Who was Leo's favorite critic?

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