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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Myriam born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1935.

2. Who did Maurice give his prayer shawl to?
(a) Myriam.
(b) Ephraim.
(c) Jacques.
(d) Boris.

3. What did Anne learn about postage stamps?
(a) People would steal postage stamps from mailboxes.
(b) People would use postage stamps to send messages.
(c) People stopped using postage stamps in the 1940s.
(d) People would hide illicit substances in stamps.

4. Who says "Knowledge is the true essence of nobility" (55)?
(a) Ephraim.
(b) Anne.
(c) Lélia.
(d) Myriam.

5. After her encounter with police, where is Myriam dropped off?
(a) A hospital.
(b) Vicente's apartment.
(c) A train station.
(d) Les Forges.

6. When did Lélia receive the postcard?
(a) March 2014.
(b) January 2003.
(c) January 2023.
(d) August 1945.

7. Why did the police in Moscow want to arrest Ephraim?
(a) He commited theft against the government.
(b) He was Jewish.
(c) He was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
(d) He stopped practicing his religion.

8. According to Ephraim, who does he not love anymore?
(a) His mother.
(b) Emma.
(c) His father.
(d) Aniouta.

9. Why did Ephraim read "Trifles for a Massacre"?
(a) He heard that Myriam had already read it.
(b) He believed in Celine's ideas.
(c) He was trying to learn more about Judaism.
(d) He wanted to read what the French people were reading.

10. Who felt abandoned by Myriam's engagement?
(a) Jacques.
(b) Emma.
(c) Noémie.
(d) Ephraim.

11. Why did Ephraim and Anna Gavronsky not get married?
(a) The family did not approve of the marriage.
(b) Ephraim fell in love with Emma instead.
(c) Anna moved to New York.
(d) Anna fell in love with somebody else.

12. Who drove Myriam out of Paris?
(a) Emma.
(b) Henrietta.
(c) Jean.
(d) Gabriele.

13. According to a neighbor in Les Forges, what was the city shaken by?
(a) The Hanged Man's House.
(b) A series of threatening postcards.
(c) An anonymous phone call.
(d) The Roberte Affair.

14. Which characters were sent to Pithiviers Camp?
(a) Emmanuel and Boris.
(b) Noémie and Jacques.
(c) Noémie and Emma.
(d) Myriam and Vicente.

15. Who observed Myriam and found her to be less pretty than Vicente's last girlfriend?
(a) Jeanine.
(b) Gabriele.
(c) Noémie.
(d) Emma.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Myriam able to have her family declared dead?

2. When Ephraim waited for French citizenship, what name did he come up with for himself?

3. Who says, "As long as one limb stirs, one does not think of the grave" (72)?

4. Who has Aniouta been living with?

5. Where was the postmark on the postcard?

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