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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Leo do with Isaac's picture?
(a) He frames it.
(b) He looks at it and begins to cry.
(c) He shows it to Bruno.
(d) He cuts it out of the paper and puts it in his wallet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who buys the book?

2. What does Zvi, when leaving, put in his pocket?

3. After this person says this, what does Leo begin to do?

4. What does Misha say when Alma talks to him on the phone?

5. What does the letter say Alma finds in the trashcan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is learned about Zvi at the beginning of this chapter?

2. For what does Leo Gursky sign up? What does Bruno think about this?

3. What does Alma do when she realizes the Alma in the book must have been real?

4. What does Alma do when Jacob Marcus sends a response to her letter?

5. What does Leo do when he sees that his son has died?

6. How does David Singer get a copy of The History of Love?

7. What is known about Alma's parents' marriage?

8. Who does Leo find in his apartment when he returns from the library? What does this person say to him?

9. What takes place in the book that seems to coincide with his life?

10. What does Zvi do the next, after staying with his friend? Why does he do this?

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