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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what does Alma muse?

2. What does Zvi think of often?

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

4. What is a book that the librarian finds by Leopold Gursky?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leo do after his heart attack?

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

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

4. How does Leo feel right before he learns of his son's death?

5. How do Charlotte and Alma deal with David's death?

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

7. About what does Leo write?

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

9. How does Alma first begin her search for Alma Mereminski? What is the result of this search?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alma Singer searches for Alma Mereminski.

Part 1) Why does she search for her?

Part 2) How does her quest for finding Alma Mereminski change her? Why is she changed?

Part 3) What is the connection between her search and the events that take place in Leo Gursky's life?

Essay Topic 2

Bird decides to help Alma on her quest.

Part 1) Why does he decide to help her? What does this decision to help her say about Bird?

Part 2) How does this decision reinforce one or more of the themes?

Part 3) Is his help useful to Alma? Why or why not? How does his own quest to help her also help him?

Essay Topic 3

David Singer dies when Alma is six.

Part 1) How does he die? How does his death affect the family?

Part 2) Do the family members grieve in healthy ways? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does the grief of each family member affect the others in the family? How does it affect their relationships with others?

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