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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 the narrator do when she thinks she sees Ershadi in real life?
(a) Walks after him to speak to him.
(b) Ignores him.
(c) Runs away because she is embarrassed to be such a big fan.
(d) Calls out lines from her favorite film of his.

2. What is Ershadi's character in the narrator's favorite film with Ershadi considering in the film?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Having a child.
(d) Retirement.

3. What impresses Shlomi about "the husband" that he tells Tamar during their first phone conversation about him?
(a) He has a Fields Medal.
(b) He has won a Pulitzer Prize.
(c) He is very wealthy.
(d) He has an Erdos number of one.

4. What does Carol do abroad that Brodman does not understand?
(a) Puts herself in that path of bulldozers in Gaza.
(b) Teaches children English.
(c) Works as a dancer performing in small villages.
(d) Volunteers for a medical organization.

5. What major life event happens in Brodman's family while he is in a coma?
(a) His mother dies.
(b) His son gets married.
(c) His wife decides to leave him.
(d) His first grandchild is born.

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. What does Noa have to deliver to the rabbi in the story "End Days"?

3. How does the narrator describe her cousins in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?

4. What does Sophie often do in the refugee camp to entertain others?

5. Who is supposed to check on Noa while her parents are out of the country?

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