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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Alma do when Bird asks about their father?
(a) She says nothing.
(b) She tells him what she knows.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She makes up several facts.

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

5. What does Zvi think of often?
(a) This family.
(b) This friend.
(c) This wife.
(d) This house.

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

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

8. What does Bernard tell Leo Isaac found with a photo of Leo and Alma?
(a) Letters written by Leo.
(b) Letters written in German.
(c) Letters written in Spanish.
(d) Letters written in Yiddish.

9. What does Zvi, when leaving, put in his pocket?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A new book.
(c) A copy of "The Death of Leopold Gursky."
(d) A letter from his friend.

10. What happens to the original manuscript?
(a) It is sent to Leo.
(b) It is thrown away.
(c) It is lost when their home is flooded.
(d) It is left in Poland.

11. As a young man in Poland, Zvi had what he has not seen since?
(a) A family.
(b) A house.
(c) A friend.
(d) A wife.

12. What does Bird tell Alma he believes about himself?
(a) He wants to be a priest.
(b) He may be a lamed vovnik.
(c) He wants to be a rabbi.
(d) He may be the Messiah.

13. What does Bruno think about the class?
(a) He needs to make some extra money.
(b) He thinks it would be great to be seen so completely by others.
(c) He thinks he signed up to see naked women.
(d) He is bored with nothing better to do.

14. What does he take home with him?
(a) The newspaper in the trash.
(b) A letter.
(c) A book.
(d) A cup of coffee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The girl tells the boy she was pregnant but never received a reply. When she assumed he was dead, what did she do?

2. What does Misha ask Alma about Alma Mereminski?

3. What does Alma start doing the next day?

4. When Bruno's wife died, what did he do?

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

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