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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 18-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sisovsky say his father belonged to, in his meeting with Zuckerman?
(a) The army.
(b) The church.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His mother.

2. What is Zuckerman's profession?
(a) Journalist.
(b) Antique dealer.
(c) Stock broker.
(d) Author.

3. What does Eva beg of Sisovsky while meeting with Zuckerman?
(a) To sell him her novel.
(b) To tell him her story.
(c) To stop telling her story.
(d) To marry her.

4. Sisovsky's father's last ten stories were about what?
(a) Jesus and Moses.
(b) Military heroes.
(c) The Nazis and Jews.
(d) Sporting events.

5. With what kind of vowels does Zuckerman say Sisovsky speaks in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Myconian.
(b) Oxonian.
(c) Russian.
(d) Dragonian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sisovsky say he arrived in Canada from in the beginning of the novel?

2. When did Sisovsky's father die?

3. This story of Eva leaving her husband foreshadows the narrator's self-discovery of what in the narrative?

4. Why does Sisovsky claim the Czech government let them leave?

5. When was Philip Roth born?

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