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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Of what is Zvi Litvinoff the author?
(a) The History of Love.
(b) The History of Chile.
(c) My Life.
(d) The Passions of Love.

5. What does this person say he or she is writing?
(a) A book about Poland.
(b) A book about Alma.
(c) A book about his life.
(d) A book about Leo.

6. What does Leo buy?
(a) A frame.
(b) A new suit.
(c) A bouquet of flowers.
(d) A new hat.

7. What does Leo wonder about the book?
(a) How it survived.
(b) How he lost it.
(c) If it is true.
(d) Who wrote it.

8. What is unusual about Alma Mereminski's name?
(a) All of the other names in the book are Spanish.
(b) It is mentioned over one hundred times.
(c) It is the only name in the book.
(d) All of the other names in the book are Polish.

9. What does Leo find when he goes up to Bruno's apartment?
(a) The apartment is empty.
(b) Bernard is in Bruno's apartment.
(c) Bruno is watching television.
(d) A note saying "Do Not Disturb. Gift Under Your Pillow."

10. When Alma writes the letter to Jacob Marcus pretending to be Charlotte, who does she tell?
(a) Uncle Julian.
(b) Bird.
(c) Misha.
(d) Leo.

11. What does Leo note about Bernard, Isaac's half-brother?
(a) He looks much like Alma.
(b) He looks much like Isaac.
(c) He looks much like his father, Mordecai.
(d) He looks much like him.

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

13. What does Alma do when she locks herself in the bathroom?
(a) She cries.
(b) She attempts to write another letter to Jacob but cannot get the words right.
(c) She wonders what she should do next about Jacob.
(d) She prays.

14. What does this person tell Leo he likes?
(a) The writing.
(b) Cake.
(c) Alma.
(d) His apartment.

15. Who was Leo's favorite critic?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Bruno.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Alma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alma do after reading The History of Love?

2. How many years have passed since the day that Leo remembers?

3. What does Alma ask her mother about Alma?

4. How long does Rosa watch Zvi before talking with him?

5. What is a book that the librarian finds by Leopold Gursky?

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