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

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

3. What does the narrator notice about the stranger's habits who comes to stay at her father's apartment?
(a) He never brushes his teeth.
(b) He is a very sound sleeper.
(c) He never seems to sleep.
(d) He is a terrible cook.

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

5. What does the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" do for a living?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Architect.
(d) Chef.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Noa's sister?

4. Where does Noa's father's excavation work often take him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the narrator of "Switzerland" so transfixed by Soraya?

3. As an elderly man, what is Brodman's own assessment of the job he did as a father to two daughters?

4. When and how does Soraya's relationship with the Dutch banker come crashing down?

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

6. What difference of opinion do Noa and her sister Rachel have about Leonard's and Monica's divorce?

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

8. What does the narrator do for a living in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" and how does she feel about her work?

9. What does the ordeal of delivering the flowers for the wedding through the wildfire seem to symbolize for Noa?

10. When does the narrator of "Switzerland" start to realize Soraya might actually be in real danger?

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