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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. What makes Mrs. Elderfield tighten the rules and regulations in her house further?
(a) Marie gets into the cooking wine.
(b) Soraya begins failing school.
(c) The narrator gets arrested.
(d) Marie runs away.

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

3. What does Noa's mother tell her about her grandmother that hurts her feelings?
(a) Her grandmother does not want Noa to come visit.
(b) Her grandmother has died.
(c) Her grandmother does not really want to talk to Noa.
(d) Her grandmother, suffering from dementia, does not remember her.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the businessman give Soraya his room number when they first meet?

2. 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"?

3. Who is Noa's boyfriend for a time before she breaks up with him?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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