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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alma print?
(a) A picture for Bird.
(b) An e-mail from her father.
(c) A letter from Jabob.
(d) A map and directions to Isaac Moritz's house,

2. How does Zvi handle this sorrow?
(a) He spends a lot of time at local cafes.
(b) He contacts the surviving family members.
(c) He helps with a trial against the Nazis.
(d) He goes back to Poland.

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

4. What has Leo lost?
(a) Alma.
(b) So many things.
(c) A few things.
(d) Not much.

5. What does Rosa say happens to the book?
(a) It had been destroyed in a flood.
(b) It has been thrown away.
(c) It has been published under Zvi's name.
(d) It has been sent back to Poland.

6. What does Julian say about a self-portrait of Rembrandt?
(a) It feels intense, yet looks serene.
(b) It is exciting, yet plain.
(c) It is plain, yet exciting.
(d) It feels serene, yet looks intense.

7. What does Leo see?
(a) A piano.
(b) A book.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) A photo album.

8. What happens the day the rain stops?
(a) The firemen take down Bird's ark.
(b) Alma tells Bird to take apart the ark.
(c) Bird takes down the ark.
(d) Charlotte has the ark destroyed.

9. What does Julian ask Alma to do?
(a) Go shopping with him.
(b) Meet him at the library.
(c) Meet him at home.
(d) Go out to dinner.

10. What is her response to Leo's letter?
(a) Zvi wants no contact with Leo.
(b) Zvi has just passed away.
(c) Zvi is too ill to respond but is happy to hear Leo is still alive.
(d) Zvi does not believe Leo is alive.

11. What is printed at the top of the page, with Isaac's name beneath it?
(a) The title "Love That is Lost."
(b) The title "Incredible."
(c) The title "The History of Love."
(d) The title "Words for Everything."

12. About what does Alma want Bird to stop talking?
(a) Her search.
(b) Wanting to help her.
(c) David.
(d) God.

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

14. What does Bird wonder about his mother?
(a) If she was in love with someone before David.
(b) If she ever loved David.
(c) If she will ever be happy again.
(d) If she had other children.

15. Has the doorman ever heard of The History of Love?
(a) Probably.
(b) Yes.
(c) Maybe.
(d) No.

Short Answer Questions

1. Does Misha call Alma back?

2. Where does Alma say she is going?

3. What does Zvi take down?

4. What is written in Zvi's friend's handwriting?

5. How does Bruno wake Leo?

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