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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 93 - 135).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Noa work?
(a) A law office.
(b) A library.
(c) A florist's shop.
(d) A restaurant.

2. What does the visitor to the narrator's father's apartment make for her to eat in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) Am omelette.
(b) A custard.
(c) A plate of pasta.
(d) A steak.

3. What does the narrator's partner in "Future Emergencies" think about the Middle Ages, according to her?
(a) They are often misunderstood.
(b) They are a good example of why men should be educated and women should not.
(c) They were more passionate times than modern times are.
(d) They were exemplary times.

4. When did Romi's parents divorce in "Seeing Ershadi"?
(a) When she was 3.
(b) They did not divorce.
(c) When she was 15.
(d) When she was 10.

5. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" discover a few weeks after the emergency?
(a) Her partner is cheating on her.
(b) She can cook well, too.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She has cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Marie lived right before coming to Switzerland?

2. Who does Noa meet at the rabbi's house when she goes to drop off the papers?

3. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" see someone wearing some time after the emergency that startles her?

4. Who reminds the narrator of Soraya years after the narrator's contact with Soraya?

5. How do the narrator and the person she lives with first meet in the story "Future Emergencies"?

(see the answer key)

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