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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Alma feel when she finds out her mother had sent more chapters to Jacob Marcus?
(a) She is upset.
(b) She is sad.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She is relieved.

2. How does Julian respond when Alma asks if he thinks David would have wanted Charlotte to fall in love again?
(a) He is not sure what David would want.
(b) David would not want her to fall in love again.
(c) David would have wanted that very much.
(d) He cannot answer for David.

3. When Zvi is about to have The History of Love published, what does the editor say about the last chapter that Zvi added?
(a) It makes perfect sense.
(b) It should be edited a little better.
(c) It is a wonderful addition.
(d) It adds nothing to the book and he wants to remove it.

4. What kind of a list has Alma made about Misha?
(a) The things they have in common.
(b) The things she loves about him.
(c) The things she dislikes about him.
(d) The things she misses about him.

5. What does Alma ask Julian about his relationship with Frances?
(a) How he fell in love with Frances.
(b) Why he left her.
(c) How he feels about her now.
(d) Why he cheated on her.

6. What does Zvi then do?
(a) He heads home.
(b) He walks back to his room.
(c) He calls his friend.
(d) He moves to America.

7. On Zvi's last morning in Poland, what does he watch his friend do?
(a) Join the Nazis.
(b) Disappear around the corner.
(c) Go into his house.
(d) Leave in a bus.

8. What does he do when he goes upstairs?
(a) He looks at the pictures on the wall.
(b) He looks through Isaac's closet, sniffing at his clothes and putting on his watch.
(c) He looks out the window.
(d) He sits on Isaac's bed.

9. How does Alma learn Jacob Marcus is really Isaac Moritz?
(a) She researches both men.
(b) The name Jacob Marcus is in one of Isaac's books.
(c) She talks to Leo about both names.
(d) Isaac Moritz calls her.

10. Why does Alma leave and head to the City Clerk's office?
(a) The man says she is still alive.
(b) The man says she never married.
(c) The man says he does not have time to help her.
(d) The man says he only has information on marriages up until 1937.

11. What does Zvi do before he leaves?
(a) He puts the package in his suitcase, looks around the room one last time.
(b) He copies the manuscript.
(c) He says good bye to his friend.
(d) He walks around the town taking photographs.

12. Why does Zvi add this last chapter?
(a) He feels guilty for not telling Leo he stole his book.
(b) He loves this chapter the best.
(c) This chapter is very important to the book.
(d) Anyone could turn to the last page of The History of Love and see the true author's name.

13. Why does Bird write that he is going away?
(a) He is tired of his family.
(b) He loves Israel.
(c) He is a lamed vovnik and needs to take care of many things.
(d) He does not fit in here.

14. Leo sits in front of the typewriter and thinks about who?
(a) All the family members he has lost over the years.
(b) Alma.
(c) His son.
(d) His friends.

15. Does Zvi sit with the intention of plagiarizing his friend, Leo Gursky?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) At first.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alma tell the clerk about Alma Mereminski?

2. What does Leo see?

3. How does Rosa destroy the manuscript?

4. What happens the day the rain stops?

5. What has Leo lost?

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