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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Noa do her deliveries for work with?
(a) Henry.
(b) Flora.
(c) Nick.
(d) Randy.

3. Where is the businessman Soraya starts seeing from?
(a) Holland.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

4. What does the narrator see concerning Soraya that alarms her after she has been seeing the businessman for a while?
(a) Soraya limping.
(b) Soraya has lost a tooth.
(c) A bruise on Soraya's throat.
(d) Soraya covering her black eye.

5. Who had been Noa's father's second-in-command in archaeological digs when she was a child?
(a) Ben.
(b) Yuval.
(c) Henry.
(d) Yuri.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which daughter of Brodman's had been hospitalized because of mental health problems?

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

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

4. What does the bride ask Noa to do for her?

5. What does the visitor to the narrator's father's apartment make for her to eat in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who, shockingly, reminds the narrator of "Switzerland" of Soraya decades after they have lived together, and how does this person remind her of Soraya?

2. What do Marie, Soraya, and the narrator all have in common in the story "Switzerland"?

3. What is one major aspect of Leonard's and Monica's divorce that bothers Noa in the story "End Days?"

4. What task does Noa have to perform to help her parents' divorce become finalized?

5. In the story "Zusya on the Roof," what physical problems has Brodman just started to overcome?

6. What conclusion does the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" come to about her father's feelings for New York and Tel Aviv?

7. What understanding passes between the bride and Noa about parents during their brief meeting?

8. How does Brodman's wife Mira treat him in general?

9. What is one major thing that surprises the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" after her father's death?

10. What does the narrator initially think of Boaz when he shows up unexpectedly at her father's apartment?

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