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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 37).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Mrs. Elderfield realize the trouble Soraya is actually in?
(a) When the police bring Soraya home.
(b) When Soraya's mother comes looking for her.
(c) When Soraya's sister calls to tell Mrs. Elderfield what is really going on.
(d) When Soraya fails to come home one night.

2. Who comes to Mrs. Elderfield's house after Mrs. Elderfield calls him out of concern for Soraya?
(a) Mrs. Sassani, Soraya's mother.
(b) Mr. Sassani, Soraya's father.
(c) Mr. Anderson.
(d) Mrs. Flingle.

3. Where did Brodman work for most of his career?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Stony Brook University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) New York University.

4. What does the narrator never doubt concerning Soraya in regards to her relationship with the businessman?
(a) That Soraya will drop out of school.
(b) That Soraya has it all under control.
(c) That Soraya is getting paid well.
(d) That Soraya has told her parents about the banker.

5. Where does Brodman take his infant grandson without telling anyone in the end of the story?
(a) His own apartment.
(b) The park.
(c) The apartment building's roof.
(d) The church down the block.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Brodman's mother done for a living?

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

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

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

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

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