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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 startles the narrator in "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" in the very end of the story?
(a) Finding her old boyfriend at the airport.
(b) Finding Boaz in her father's bed.
(c) Finding a snake in her apartment.
(d) Finding she has been fired inexplicably.

2. What is the narrator's father's first name?
(a) Henry.
(b) Adam.
(c) Eli.
(d) Joshua.

3. What does Noa have to deliver to the rabbi in the story "End Days"?
(a) Her ring.
(b) Her baby's outfit for the bris.
(c) Her parents' judgement of divorce papers.
(d) Her father's check.

4. What does Noa do with her coworker as they wait at the bride's house for their boss?
(a) Does the crossword.
(b) Has sex.
(c) Writes a story.
(d) Smokes marijuana.

5. What does a random stranger say to the narrator during the narrator's youth that shakes her and that she never forgets?
(a) That he could break her in two with one hand.
(b) That he could throw her in the river right now and no one would ever know where she went.
(c) That he will make her disappear.
(d) That he will buy her anything in exchange for favors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Noa's mother travel right after the divorce?

2. How does the businessman give Soraya his room number when they first meet?

3. What does Carol do abroad that Brodman does not understand?

4. What language does Soraya speak with her own family?

5. What preoccupies the narrator as she trails Boaz through the streets of Tel Aviv?

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