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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. 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?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father as a young child.
(d) Her sister.

2. What is threatening the area where Noa lives?
(a) A flood.
(b) A hurricane.
(c) A wildfire.
(d) A volcanic eruption.

3. 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 she has been fired inexplicably.
(c) Finding a snake in her apartment.
(d) Finding Boaz in her father's bed.

4. What happens at the rabbi's house that Noa would never have expected?
(a) She loses her virginity.
(b) She has a heart attack.
(c) Her car breaks down outside the the rabbi helps her fix it.
(d) She swims in the rabbi's pool.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which daughter of Brodman's has a significant life event while he is in a coma?

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

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

4. What does the visitor to the narrator's father's apartment make for her to eat in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?

5. What does the narrator do impulsively involving the stranger one night in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?

(see the answer key)

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