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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 136 - 181).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator's father's friend who comes unannounced to her father's apartment tell her he does for a living?
(a) Engineer.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Accountant.
(d) Chef.

2. How does the landscape architect describe himself?
(a) As a religious man.
(b) As a realist and an man of the earth.
(c) As a scholar.
(d) As a pragmatist.

3. Where is the narrator often drawn to at Three Winds?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The pine grove.
(c) The chapel.
(d) The lake.

4. Who comes to see the landscape architect and takes him away for a time?
(a) The priests.
(b) The president.
(c) The dancers.
(d) The generals.

5. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" say about her partner's sense of humor?
(a) It is unusual.
(b) It is just like her own sense of humor.
(c) It is revolting.
(d) It is non-existant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country is the narrator's partner originally from in "Future Emergencies"?

2. What happens in the landscape architect's final years?

3. What was going on in Romi's life when she first saw the narrator's favorite Ershadi film?

4. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" discover a few weeks after the emergency?

5. What impresses Shlomi about "the husband" that he tells Tamar during their first phone conversation about him?

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