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

2. Who reminds the narrator of Soraya years after the narrator's contact with Soraya?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her own 12 year-old daughter.
(d) Her neighbor.

3. How does the businessman give Soraya his room number when they first meet?
(a) On the back of a page torn from a book.
(b) On the back of a five-hundred franc note.
(c) On his dinner receipt.
(d) On a piece of note paper.

4. What does Noa suggest the bride wear that is unconventional?
(a) A hat.
(b) Sneakers.
(c) A fanny pack.
(d) Glitter.

5. What does the narrator find in the drawer of her father's night table in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) A gun.
(b) A small leather photo album.
(c) A Bible.
(d) A knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Where does Noa's mother travel right after the divorce?

3. What does Noa's neighbor, Mr. Frankel, bury in his yard?

4. What does Noa do with her coworker as they wait at the bride's house for their boss?

5. Who is Noa's sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and to whom does Noa lose her virginity?

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 is the narrator's strange dream in the beginning of the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake"?

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

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

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. 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?

8. In "Switzerland," what is the narrator's father's relationship to physical trauma?

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

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

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