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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. What does Bird find?

2. How does Zvi handle this sorrow?

3. When Leo gives the man his name, what does the man think?

4. What has Leo lost?

5. What does Rosa say happens to the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Bird confused by Alma's book?

2. What does Zvi do when he gets to Alma's name in the book?

3. What happens when Uncle Julian leaves?

4. What happens when Alma Singer ends up at the address given for Alma Moritz?

5. How does Alma uncover the mystery about Jacob Marcus?

6. What does Zvi not think about when he copies the pages of Leo's book?

7. What does Zvi do when he reaches the last page?

8. What does Leo do when he goes upstairs?

9. What does Leo realize when he reads an article in a magazine?

10. What does Leo believe about this manuscript, regarding Isaac?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Leo becomes famous for loving one woman all his life and writing about it.

Part 1) How does this statement support one or more of the themes?

Part 2) Why has he only loved one woman? What message does this send to the reader?

Part 3) How is this idea of loving one individual echoed throughout this story? What is the purpose of this?

Essay Topic 2

Isaac is Leo's son.

Part 1) How is this discovered? What foreshadows this discovery?

Part 2) Does Isaac know he is Leo's son? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do various clues discovered throughout this story related to what Isaac might know about Leo affect Leo? Why?

Part 4) How does Leo feel about never knowing his son? How does he handle Isaac's death?

Essay Topic 3

Alma's brother, Chaim, is called Bird.

Part 1) Why is he called Brid? How does this nickname reflect Bird's personality?

Part 2) What else is unique about Bird? How does this support one of the story's themes?

Part 3) How is Bird's behavior related to his father's death and his mother and sister's grief?

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