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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 is Tamar's brother's nickname for her that goes back to childhood?
(a) Tash.
(b) Marie.
(c) Tammy.
(d) Tam.

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

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 church down the block.
(c) His own apartment.
(d) The park.

4. Where was the landscape architect's mother born?
(a) Austria.
(b) The Carpathian Mountains.
(c) The Cascades.
(d) Germany.

5. Who does Tamar's mother ask for help before she lets the strangers in at her door in the story "The Husband"?
(a) The new father from the floor above her apartment.
(b) Her son.
(c) The police.
(d) The woman next door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the narrator think of Ershadi again for the first time years after she thinks she saw him in real life?

2. Which boyfriend of Romi's has a tendency to be possessive of her?

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

4. Where is the businessman Soraya starts seeing from?

5. What makes Sophie realize that she ultimately did not want to marry Ezra?

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