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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jean Hans Arp do for a living?
(a) He was a teacher.
(b) He was a scientist.
(c) He was an artist.
(d) He was a doctor.

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

3. How did Noémie die?
(a) She was shot.
(b) She had a serious infection.
(c) She had the flu.
(d) She had typhus.

4. How did Lélia's mail end up on the ground?
(a) Her mailbox was broken.
(b) She did not have a mailbox.
(c) Her postal worker didn not like her.
(d) She always threw her mail on the ground out of anger.

5. Where did Ephraim and Emma go after the police initally came to arrest him?
(a) Palestine.
(b) France.
(c) Latvia.
(d) Spain.

6. What was Lélia doing that made the postcard feel like a threat?
(a) She was t;rying to contact the mayor of Les Forges.
(b) She was trying to take her grandparent's case to court.
(c) She was doing research for the Matteoli Commisson paperwork.
(d) She was teaching a class about Jewish history.

7. According to Vicente, why was Miriam his "ticket to pissing off the whole world" (111)?
(a) She was smart.
(b) She was charismatic.
(c) She was pregnant.
(d) She was Jewish.

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

9. Who did Emma become worried about because he or she stopped growing?
(a) Myriam.
(b) Ephraim.
(c) Jacques.
(d) Noémi.

10. Where did Aniouta move with her husband?
(a) Paris.
(b) Boston.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Berlin.

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

12. Why was Ephraim in the newspaper?
(a) He created a bread machine.
(b) He ran for political office.
(c) He created a new farming tool.
(d) He made a beautiful piece of art.

13. What job did Myriam dream about having?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Revolutionary.
(c) Philosophy professor.
(d) English teacher.

14. What job did Noémi dream about having?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Writer.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Professor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ephraim's business go bankrupt?

2. How did Anne and Lélia get a hint to check out the Fauchere home?

3. Why did Ephraim read "Trifles for a Massacre"?

4. What kind of invention did Boris create?

5. What was the weather like on August 2, 1942?

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