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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years have passed since the day that Leo remembers?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 60 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 40 years.

2. For whom does Alma search the Internet?
(a) Leo Gursky.
(b) Isaac Moritz.
(c) Alma Mereminski.
(d) Bruno.

3. What does Zvi do more as the years go by?
(a) Becomes depressed.
(b) Writes books.
(c) Forgets memories.
(d) Coughs.

4. Leo looks under his pillow. What does he find?
(a) A letter from Bruno.
(b) A brown envelope with his name on it, in an unfamiliar handwriting.
(c) A card from Bruno.
(d) A letter from Bernard.

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

6. After this person says this, what does Leo begin to do?
(a) Walk out the door.
(b) Pick up pages.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Pick up the phone.

7. The next day, why does Alma head for the Municipal Archives?
(a) She is researching her family background.
(b) She is going to a poetry reading.
(c) She is looking for information on Mereminski's death.
(d) She is looking for a book.

8. As the two walk, what does Misha tell Alma some people think?
(a) She is his best friend.
(b) She is crazy.
(c) She is unhappy.
(d) She is his girlfriend.

9. Why does Alma think Litvinoff did not give Alma Mereminski a Spanish name?
(a) Because he loves the name Alma.
(b) Because Alma is the only real character.
(c) Because he was in love with her.
(d) Because he could not think of a better Spanish name.

10. What does this person tell Leo to do?
(a) Contact Zvi.
(b) Get his book back.
(c) Find his son.
(d) Call Rosa.

11. What does the letter say Alma finds in the trashcan?
(a) Julian has been kicked out by his wife and needs a place to stay.
(b) Alma tells David that she will always love him but is ready to move on.
(c) Charlotte would like to meet Jacob in person.
(d) Julian defends his relationship with a colleague and accuses Frances of changing.

12. What does Misha say when Alma talks to him on the phone?
(a) He does not want to see her again.
(b) He yells at her.
(c) He is going to the movies with another girl.
(d) He says nothing.

13. Why does Alma think that Mereminski and Litvinoff knew each other as children?
(a) The book contains stories about Alma Mereminski as a child.
(b) The book contains descriptions about Alma and Zvi in Poland.
(c) The book contains stories about Alma and Zvi in New York as children.
(d) The book contains stories about the two of them.

14. What does Leo do with Isaac's picture?
(a) He frames it.
(b) He cuts it out of the paper and puts it in his wallet.
(c) He shows it to Bruno.
(d) He looks at it and begins to cry.

15. When do the Nazis invade the boy's hometown of Slonim?
(a) In 1939.
(b) In 1940.
(c) In 1938.
(d) In 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Isaac stop as he leaves Starbucks?

2. About what does Alma read?

3. What does this person say he or she is writing?

4. What does Leo buy?

5. What does Bird tell Alma he believes about himself?

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