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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 136 - 181).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator take out of storage for the landscape architect in his last years that he wears often?
(a) His father's fur coat.
(b) His silk pajamas.
(c) His old baseball hat.
(d) His custom-made slippers.

2. Who is the narrator's closest friend during the early part of the story "Seeing Ershadi"?
(a) Romi.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Henley.
(d) Sarah.

3. Where does Noa work?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A library.
(c) A florist's shop.
(d) A law office.

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

5. What does Brodman's wife show him that she has bought for the baby that enrages him?
(a) An outfit with crowns on it.
(b) A rattle with silver.
(c) A moses basket.
(d) A rattle with gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the city pass out to all its residents in the story "Future Emergencies"?

2. Who does Tamar's mother's visitor tell her the old man he has brought with him is?

3. What is Tamar's brother's nickname for her that goes back to childhood?

4. What does "the husband" hold, unexpectedly, when Tamar's mother first meets him in her apartment?

5. Who comes to see the landscape architect and takes him away for a time?

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