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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. Whose clothes does Brodman wear to his grandchild's bris?
(a) His brother's.
(b) His best friend's.
(c) His son's.
(d) His neighbor's.

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

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

4. Who is the friend of the narrator's father who gives her the keys for his apartment?
(a) Boaz.
(b) Henry.
(c) Zusya.
(d) Koren.

5. Who is the person who comes unannounced to the narrator's father's apartment?
(a) Joshua.
(b) Boaz.
(c) Henry.
(d) James.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Noa meet at the rabbi's house when she goes to drop off the papers?

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

3. What does the stranger assume about the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?

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

5. Where does Marie go during the Christmas break from school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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