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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 is Soraya having dinner with when she first meets the businessman?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

2. What language does Soraya speak with her own family?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Farsi.
(c) German.
(d) English.

3. What does the narrator do impulsively involving the stranger one night in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) Follows him when he goes out.
(b) Asks him to teach her a new language.
(c) Asks him to tell her something about her father.
(d) Asks him out to dinner.

4. What does the stranger assume about the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) That she is also an engineer.
(b) That she is a writer.
(c) That she has dual citizenship.
(d) That she is a student.

5. How does the businessman give Soraya his room number when they first meet?
(a) On a piece of note paper.
(b) On the back of a page torn from a book.
(c) On his dinner receipt.
(d) On the back of a five-hundred franc note.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of illness does Brodman have in the story "Zusya on the Roof"?

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

3. 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?

4. Who is the friend of the narrator's father who gives her the keys for his apartment?

5. What hairstyle does the narrator admire that Soraya wears?

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