View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Brodman's mother done for a living?
(a) Cleaned houses.
(b) Accounting.
(c) Physics teacher.
(d) Dancer.

2. How does the narrator describe her cousins in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) As friendly, open people.
(b) As suspicious people.
(c) As indifferent people.
(d) As hard, unsparing people.

3. In the story "Switzerland," how long has it been since the narrator has seen Soraya?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 30 years.

4. What does the narrator find herself thinking that no place in Tel Aviv is ever far from?
(a) The sea.
(b) The market.
(c) The temple.
(d) The stars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Noa call her father for one summer on the kibbutz, but dropped when they returned home?

2. What does the narrator spend hours after school doing in "Switzerland"?

3. What major life event happens in Brodman's family while he is in a coma?

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

5. Who does the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" dream is at the apartment door in the start of the story?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 261 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample