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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 182 - 225).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tamar find "the husband" teaching her son over Facetime one morning?
(a) Songs.
(b) Card tricks.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Carpentry.

2. What does the narrator think is the most extraordinary thing about the ending of her favorite Ershadi film?
(a) The viewer does not ever really know what happens to Ershadi.
(b) Ershadi sacrifices himself for his lover.
(c) Ershadi becomes a ghost.
(d) Ershadi's character survives.

3. In the story "Switzerland," how long has it been since the narrator has seen Soraya?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 30 years.

4. Who is the only one in Tamar's family who is currently married?
(a) Her brother Shlomi.
(b) Herself.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her mother.

5. What makes the narrator think of Ershadi again for the first time years after she thinks she saw him in real life?
(a) She passes a poster for her favorite Ershadi film playing in her neighborhood.
(b) She comes across an Ershadi film on television.
(c) Her husband tells her he loved Ershadi films too.
(d) She sees a report that Ershadi has died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Shlomi's baby?

2. Which daughter of Brodman's had been hospitalized because of mental health problems?

3. What is threatening the area where Noa lives?

4. What does the landscape architect say about nature?

5. What does the narrator notice about the stranger's habits who comes to stay at her father's apartment?

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