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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Emanuel Chaim known as Bird?
(a) It is the only name he responds to.
(b) He loves birds.
(c) Once he tries to fly.
(d) He looks like a bird.

2. Who had Leo sent excerpts to in America?
(a) His mother.
(b) His best friend.
(c) Bruno.
(d) The woman he loved.

3. Why does Leo Gursky respond to an ad for nude models?
(a) He needs to make some extra money.
(b) He thinks it would be great to be seen so completely by others.
(c) He is bored with nothing better to do.
(d) He thinks he signed up to see naked women.

4. What does Leo suddenly realize?
(a) His son read his book.
(b) He might be famous.
(c) Someone stole his book.
(d) He wrote a book.

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

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

7. Why does Alma think that Mereminski came to New York?
(a) Litvinoff wrote about a string held by a woman who left for America.
(b) Litvinoff wrote about a string held by a woman who lives in Brooklyn.
(c) Litvinoff wrote about a woman who flew to New York.
(d) Litvinoff wrote about a woman who returned to New York.

8. A few weeks later, what does Zvi discover when his friend does not show up?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) He has moved.
(c) He has run away.
(d) He is captured by the Nazis.

9. What does Leo see when he arrives at Bernard's house?
(a) The house is full of Alma's family members.
(b) The house is filled with memories of Isaac.
(c) The house is full of mourners, all talking about Isaac.
(d) The house is full of Leo's friends.

10. Who buys the book?
(a) Zvi Litvinoff.
(b) David Singer.
(c) Charlotte Singer.
(d) Alma Mereminski.

11. On how many dates has Charlotte gone on since David's death? T
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

12. Where does Alma's father David meet Alma's mother, Charlotte?
(a) In Chile.
(b) In a concentration camp.
(c) In the United States.
(d) On an Israeli kibbutz.

13. The girl tells the boy she was pregnant but never received a reply. When she assumed he was dead, what did she do?
(a) She married her boss's son.
(b) She gave the baby up for adoption.
(c) She married her neighbor.
(d) She became a single mother.

14. Where does an original copy wind up?
(a) In a secondhand bookstore in New York.
(b) In a secondhand bookstore in Poland.
(c) In a secondhand bookstrore in Santiago.
(d) In a secondhand bookstore in Buenos Aires.

15. What does Alma start doing the next day?
(a) Looking for Alma Mereminski.
(b) Looking for Zvi.
(c) Looking for Jacob Marcus.
(d) Looking for Leo.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. As a young man in Poland, Zvi had what he has not seen since?

3. Who was Leo's favorite critic?

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

5. From where does most of the information about Zvi come?

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