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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 Zvi do the night before he marries Rosa?

2. Where would Zvi eventually settle?

3. How does Alma learn Jacob Marcus is really Isaac Moritz?

4. What does Julian say about a self-portrait of Rembrandt?

5. For how many days does Bird write that it has been raining?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Leo headed at the beginning of this chapter?

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

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

4. What does Leo do when he goes upstairs?

5. What does Alma do when she arrives at the Municipal Archives? What happens when she goes to the City Clerk's office?

6. What happens when no one answers at Leo's destination?

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

8. What has Bird written in his journal?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Bird narrates two of the chapters.

Part 1) Describe these two chapters. Why is he the narrator of these two chapters?

Part 2) What is revealed about Bird through these two chapters? How does this affect your opinion of Bird?

Part 3) Why does the author have Alma, Leo, and Bird narrate this book? Why are no other characters also narrators?

Essay Topic 3

Alma is named after the Alma in The History of Love.

Part 1) Why is she named after this Alma?

Part 2) How might the fact that Alma Mereminski is Alma Singer's namesake affect Alma Singer? How might it influence choices she makes?

Part 3) What other parallel's exist between Alma Mereminski and Alma Singer, besides their names?

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