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

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

3. Where does the narrator meet Sophie years after they lose touch?
(a) The hospital.
(b) A refugee camp.
(c) A musuem.
(d) A restaurant.

4. What does the narrator think is the most extraordinary thing about the ending of her favorite Ershadi film?
(a) Ershadi's character survives.
(b) Ershadi becomes a ghost.
(c) The viewer does not ever really know what happens to Ershadi.
(d) Ershadi sacrifices himself for his lover.

5. What does the narrator see concerning Soraya that alarms her after she has been seeing the businessman for a while?
(a) Soraya covering her black eye.
(b) Soraya limping.
(c) Soraya has lost a tooth.
(d) A bruise on Soraya's throat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tamar's daughter?

2. Who comes to Brodman's grandson's Bris that makes Brodman uncomfortable?

3. Who does Tamar's mother ask for help before she lets the strangers in at her door in the story "The Husband"?

4. What are the lower gardens in the heart of the public park replaced with, at the generals' behest?

5. What does "the husband" hold, unexpectedly, when Tamar's mother first meets him in her apartment?

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