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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 happens in the landscape architect's final years?
(a) He does not have many friends left.
(b) He completely stops working.
(c) He gets married several times.
(d) He works all the time.

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

3. What job does the narrator have in the story "Seeing Ershadi"?
(a) Dancer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Singer.
(d) Doctor.

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

5. How does the narrator describe her cousins in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) As suspicious people.
(b) As friendly, open people.
(c) As hard, unsparing people.
(d) As indifferent people.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where had Marie lived right before coming to Switzerland?

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

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

5. What is the landscape architect squeamish about?

(see the answer key)

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