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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 find herself thinking that no place in Tel Aviv is ever far from?
(a) The temple.
(b) The stars.
(c) The sea.
(d) The market.

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

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

4. Who is Noa's boyfriend for a time before she breaks up with him?
(a) Henry.
(b) James.
(c) John.
(d) Gabe.

5. What is the name of the only person at the rabbi's house when Noa arrives?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Aviel.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Mr. Hendery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Soraya speak with her own family?

2. What does the narrator spend hours after school doing in "Switzerland"?

3. In the story "Switzerland," how long has it been since the narrator has seen Soraya?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. What does the narrator seem to gather about Boaz's trip that she follows him on in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake"?

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

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

6. 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?

7. How does the narrator meet Soraya in the story "Switzerland"?

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

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

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

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