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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 182 - 225).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What preoccupies the narrator as she trails Boaz through the streets of Tel Aviv?
(a) Her hunger.
(b) Her aching food.
(c) Her migraine headache.
(d) Her terrible thirst.

2. What does the city pass out to all its residents in the story "Future Emergencies"?
(a) Tylenol.
(b) Oranges.
(c) Socks.
(d) Gas masks.

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

4. Which actor does the narrator feel is beautiful enough to live forever?
(a) Richard Robel.
(b) Louis Garrel.
(c) Jean-Claude Van Damme.
(d) Henry Robinson.

5. What does the narrator do most days after work?
(a) Walks to the sea or goes home to watch a movie.
(b) Calls her boyfriend.
(c) Calls her mother.
(d) Goes for a large dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the estate the narrator says only the luckiest would get to see the garden of in the story "In the Garden"?

2. What does the landscape architect say about nature?

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

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

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

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