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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kate, the narrator's American friend, show her that belongs to her father?
(a) His collection of rare plants.
(b) His collection of Playboy magazines.
(c) His collection of valuable instruments.
(d) His collection of special music.

2. Who is Brodman's wife?
(a) Mira.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Zoe.

3. Where does Marie go during the Christmas break from school?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Berlin.
(c) New York.
(d) Boston.

4. When did the narrator's mother pass away?
(a) When she was fourteen.
(b) When she was eight.
(c) When she was three.
(d) When she was twenty.

5. What does Noa do with her coworker as they wait at the bride's house for their boss?
(a) Has sex.
(b) Does the crossword.
(c) Smokes marijuana.
(d) Writes a story.

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

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

8. What is the narrator's father's first name?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Adam.
(c) Henry.
(d) Eli.

9. What does the stranger assume about the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) That she is a writer.
(b) That she has dual citizenship.
(c) That she is also an engineer.
(d) That she is a student.

10. Who performs Noa's parents' divorce ceremony?
(a) Rabbi Wyland.
(b) Rabbi Shemkin.
(c) Rabbi Strauss.
(d) Rabbi Helmand.

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

12. Who is Noa's sister?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Sarah.

13. What happens at the rabbi's house that Noa would never have expected?
(a) She swims in the rabbi's pool.
(b) Her car breaks down outside the the rabbi helps her fix it.
(c) She loses her virginity.
(d) She has a heart attack.

14. What startles the narrator in "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" in the very end of the story?
(a) Finding a snake in her apartment.
(b) Finding she has been fired inexplicably.
(c) Finding her old boyfriend at the airport.
(d) Finding Boaz in her father's bed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does a random stranger say to the narrator during the narrator's youth that shakes her and that she never forgets?

3. Who had been Noa's father's second-in-command in archaeological digs when she was a child?

4. What kind of illness does Brodman have in the story "Zusya on the Roof"?

5. What had Brodman's mother done for a living?

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