View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is her response to Leo's letter?

2. What does Alma tell the clerk about Alma Mereminski?

3. What does Bird sneak into Alma's room and grab?

4. How does Alma feel when she finds out her mother had sent more chapters to Jacob Marcus?

5. What happens the day the rain stops?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Leo do when he sits in front of the typewriter?

4. Describe Zvi and Rosa courtship.

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

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

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

8. What does Alma do on Saturday morning?

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

10. What happens the night before Zvi dies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Alma Singer is another narrator.

Part 1) Describe her. Why is she also a narrator?

Part 2) How do the chapters narrated by Alma compare to those by Leo?

Part 3) How does the author use parallel circumstances and relationships to connect these two characters? Is this effective? Why or why not?

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,127 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample