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

2. What does Alma start doing the next day?
(a) Looking for Zvi.
(b) Looking for Leo.
(c) Looking for Alma Mereminski.
(d) Looking for Jacob Marcus.

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

4. What does Zvi do with his friend's work?
(a) He reads it to his friend.
(b) He steals it.
(c) He throws it away.
(d) He mouths the words as a prayer for life.

5. When Leo came to America, what did he become?
(a) A writer.
(b) A locksmith.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) A doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Alma writes the letter to Jacob Marcus pretending to be Charlotte, who does she tell?

2. Leo looks under his pillow. What does he find?

3. What does he take home with him?

4. When Leo returns to his apartment, who does he find?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Alma think that Alma Mereminski is a real person?

4. Why is Emanuel Chaim known as Bird? What else is unique about Emanuel?

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

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

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

8. Why does Zvi's friend not show up to meet him?

9. What does Zvi read to Rosa?

10. What does Leo notice about this copy of his book?

(see the answer keys)

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