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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 Rafi begin to use as a means of leverage in his discussions with his wife?
(a) His mother's illness.
(b) Their children.
(c) Money.
(d) His own illness.

2. Who is the person who comes unannounced to the narrator's father's apartment?
(a) James.
(b) Boaz.
(c) Henry.
(d) Joshua.

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

4. What does the narrator's father's friend who comes unannounced to her father's apartment tell her he does for a living?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Chef.
(d) Engineer.

5. What preoccupies the narrator as she trails Boaz through the streets of Tel Aviv?
(a) Her terrible thirst.
(b) Her hunger.
(c) Her aching food.
(d) Her migraine headache.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event in Brodman's life led to a period of depression for him?

2. What is the name of the estate the narrator says only the luckiest would get to see the garden of in the story "In the Garden"?

3. Where does Shlomi live where Tamar and the rest of the family go to visit the new baby?

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

5. Who says something to Brodman loudly at the Bris that makes Brodman uncomfortable?

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