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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 39 - 92).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find in the drawer of her father's night table in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) A small leather photo album.
(b) A Bible.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

2. What does Carol do abroad that Brodman does not understand?
(a) Volunteers for a medical organization.
(b) Puts herself in that path of bulldozers in Gaza.
(c) Teaches children English.
(d) Works as a dancer performing in small villages.

3. What did the scribe's family do before they were scribes for generations going back?
(a) They were rabbis.
(b) They were lawyers.
(c) They were bakers.
(d) They were butchers.

4. Who performs Noa's parents' divorce ceremony?
(a) Rabbi Helmand.
(b) Rabbi Strauss.
(c) Rabbi Wyland.
(d) Rabbi Shemkin.

5. Who is supposed to check on Noa while her parents are out of the country?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Jack and Roberta Berkowitz, her parents' oldest friends.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her uncle, Rabbi Strauss.

Short Answer Questions

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

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"?

3. What does a random stranger say to the narrator during the narrator's youth that shakes her and that she never forgets?

4. What does the narrator never doubt concerning Soraya in regards to her relationship with the businessman?

5. What does the narrator notice about the stranger's habits who comes to stay at her father's apartment?

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