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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the book published?
(a) Buenos Aires.
(b) Santiago.
(c) Quito.
(d) Mexico City.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How old was Alma when David was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

9. How many weeks pass and Alma still has not spoken to Misha and Uncle Julian has not left?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) Four weeks.

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

11. 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.

12. Jacob Marcus sends a response. What does Alma do with this letter?
(a) She calls Jacob Marcus.
(b) She throws it away.
(c) She picks through it for clues and writes them in code in her third volume of How to Survive in the Wild.
(d) She gives it to her mother.

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

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

15. Why does Zvi put this in his pocket?
(a) He wants to read the book.
(b) He believed he would buy time for his friend.
(c) He wants to reread the letter.
(d) He needs to finish the article he was reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the title page of Charlotte's copy, what does Alma read?

2. What has Leo enjoyed writing about since childhood?

3. What does Alma do when Bird asks about their father?

4. What does this person tell Leo he likes?

5. Why is Emanuel Chaim known as Bird?

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