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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. About what does Alma want Bird to stop talking?

2. Why does Alma feel this way when Herman kisses her?

3. Has the doorman ever heard of The History of Love?

4. What does Leo do when he first enters the house?

5. Years earlier, what does Leo do when he finds out what kind of typewriter Isaac uses?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Bird written in his journal?

2. Why does Alma become upset when she gets home?

3. What does Leo do when he goes upstairs?

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

5. What does Zvi do on his last morning in Poland?

6. What happens the night before Zvi dies?

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

8. About what does Julina tell Alma while they are out to dinner?

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

10. What does Alma do when she goes into Bird's room while he is sleeping?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alma is hesitant about her relationship with Misha.

Part 1) Describe her relationship with Misha. What does Alma know about love up to this point?

Part 2) How does her view of love affect her relationship with Misha.

Part 3) When does she realize she is falling in love with him? What is ironic about 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

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?

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