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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. What does this person tell Leo to do?
(a) Call Rosa.
(b) Find his son.
(c) Contact Zvi.
(d) Get his book back.

2. What does the letter say Alma finds in the trashcan?
(a) Julian has been kicked out by his wife and needs a place to stay.
(b) Julian defends his relationship with a colleague and accuses Frances of changing.
(c) Alma tells David that she will always love him but is ready to move on.
(d) Charlotte would like to meet Jacob in person.

3. What does Leo wonder about the book?
(a) Who wrote it.
(b) How it survived.
(c) If it is true.
(d) How he lost it.

4. When Leo realizes what this person means, what does he do?
(a) Begins to smile.
(b) Call Rosa.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Walks out the door.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boy escape death?

2. He watched over his friend the entire night, and how was his friend in the morning?

3. What does Leo do with Isaac's picture?

4. What happens to the original manuscript?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Alma learned about Alma Mereminski? What does she believe is the connection between Mereminski and Litvinoff?

2. What had Isaac found of his mother's? What do these things make him believe?

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

4. Why is Leo surprised to see a copy of his book? How does this make him feel?

5. What takes place that affects Misha and Alma's friendship?

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

7. What does Bird tell Alma about the lamed vovniks?

8. How does this part of the chapter suggest that Bruno had feelings for Alma as well?

9. Why does Leo go into an empty bedroom in Bernard's house?

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

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