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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. Who does Noa meet at the rabbi's house when she goes to drop off the papers?
(a) Her old teacher.
(b) Her sister.
(c) The rabbi's son.
(d) Her best friend.

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

3. What does the narrator keep on his windowsill?
(a) An emerald.
(b) A little pewter box.
(c) A picture of his mother.
(d) A picture of his father.

4. Where is the narrator's father's apartment that she stays in in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Miami.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Tel Aviv.

5. What does a random stranger say to the narrator during the narrator's youth that shakes her and that she never forgets?
(a) That he could break her in two with one hand.
(b) That he could throw her in the river right now and no one would ever know where she went.
(c) That he will make her disappear.
(d) That he will buy her anything in exchange for favors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator in the story "To Be a Man" go to see her lover?

2. What does Sophie look like when the narrator first encounters her in the refugee camp?

3. Which film of Ershadi's is the narrator's favorite?

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

5. Who comes to Brodman's grandson's Bris that makes Brodman uncomfortable?

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