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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Mrs. Elderfield tighten the rules and regulations in her house further?
(a) Marie runs away.
(b) Marie gets into the cooking wine.
(c) Soraya begins failing school.
(d) The narrator gets arrested.

2. Who is Soraya having dinner with when she first meets the businessman?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her father.

3. What does the narrator do impulsively involving the stranger one night in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) Asks him to teach her a new language.
(b) Asks him out to dinner.
(c) Follows him when he goes out.
(d) Asks him to tell her something about her 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 Noa do with her coworker as they wait at the bride's house for their boss?
(a) Writes a story.
(b) Has sex.
(c) Does the crossword.
(d) Smokes marijuana.

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

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

8. What did Noa call her father for one summer on the kibbutz, but dropped when they returned home?
(a) Leonard.
(b) Daddy.
(c) Abba.
(d) Henry.

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

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

11. What event in Brodman's life led to a period of depression for him?
(a) His mother's hospitalization.
(b) His son's death.
(c) His father's death.
(d) His brother's death.

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

13. Who is supposed to check on Noa while her parents are out of the country?
(a) Her uncle, Rabbi Strauss.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Jack and Roberta Berkowitz, her parents' oldest friends.

14. What does the narrator spend hours after school doing in "Switzerland"?
(a) Going to cheerleading practice.
(b) Running track.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Wandering around Geneva.

15. What did the scribe's family do before they were scribes for generations going back?
(a) They were lawyers.
(b) They were butchers.
(c) They were rabbis.
(d) They were bakers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Marie lived right before coming to Switzerland?

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

3. What preoccupies the narrator as she trails Boaz through the streets of Tel Aviv?

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

5. When does Mrs. Elderfield realize the trouble Soraya is actually in?

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