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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 Brodman's wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Zoe.
(c) Mira.
(d) Rachel.

2. Where does Brodman take his infant grandson without telling anyone in the end of the story?
(a) His own apartment.
(b) The church down the block.
(c) The park.
(d) The apartment building's roof.

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

4. What does Kate, the narrator's American friend, show her that belongs to her father?
(a) His collection of Playboy magazines.
(b) His collection of valuable instruments.
(c) His collection of special music.
(d) His collection of rare plants.

5. What does the stranger assume about the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) That she has dual citizenship.
(b) That she is also an engineer.
(c) That she is a writer.
(d) That she is a student.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father's friend who comes unannounced to her father's apartment tell her he does for a living?

2. What startles the narrator in "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" in the very end of the story?

3. Where did Brodman work for most of his career?

4. Who is the friend of the narrator's father who gives her the keys for his apartment?

5. What is threatening the area where Noa lives?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

8. What event coincides with Brodman's near-death experience?

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

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

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