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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 had Brodman's mother done for a living?
(a) Dancer.
(b) Cleaned houses.
(c) Physics teacher.
(d) Accounting.

2. Where is the narrator's father's apartment that she stays in in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Miami.
(d) Tel Aviv.

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

4. What hairstyle does the narrator admire that Soraya wears?
(a) A Chanel bob.
(b) A long, wild look.
(c) A mohawk.
(d) A pageboy.

5. 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 Boaz in her father's bed.
(c) Finding her old boyfriend at the airport.
(d) Finding she has been fired inexplicably.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose clothes does Brodman wear to his grandchild's bris?

2. What does Brodman's wife show him that she has bought for the baby that enrages him?

3. What does the narrator find herself thinking that no place in Tel Aviv is ever far from?

4. Who is Noa's sister?

5. What does the narrator's father's friend who comes unannounced to her father's apartment tell her he does for a living?

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