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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 man who visits Tamar's mother tell Tamar's mother about his own family?
(a) His father was lost in the war.
(b) His grandparents never got married.
(c) His grandparents lost each other during the war.
(d) His mother died when he was a baby.

2. What happens in the landscape architect's final years?
(a) He works all the time.
(b) He does not have many friends left.
(c) He gets married several times.
(d) He completely stops working.

3. What does the narrator think is the most extraordinary thing about the ending of her favorite Ershadi film?
(a) Ershadi sacrifices himself for his lover.
(b) Ershadi becomes a ghost.
(c) Ershadi's character survives.
(d) The viewer does not ever really know what happens to Ershadi.

4. Who does the narrator live with in the story "Future Emergencies"?
(a) Henry.
(b) James.
(c) Romi.
(d) Victor.

5. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" see someone wearing some time after the emergency that startles her?
(a) A helmet.
(b) A gas mask.
(c) Water-proof shoes.
(d) Fire gear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the narrator that she has also had a strange experience with Ershadi?

2. When do Sophie and Ezra get back together again after an initial break-up?

3. Where is the narrator often drawn to at Three Winds?

4. What is one skill the narrator's partner in "Future Emergencies" has that she appreciates?

5. Where does the narrator mostly practice her job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Romi do to help the narrator when the narrator is in a crisis?

2. What does the narrator in the story "Seeing Ershadi" think about the film Taste of Cherry?

3. In the story "The Husband," how does Tamar's mother Ilana meet "the husband," Sandor?

4. What does the famous landscape architect instruct the narrator to do upon his death?

5. What problems does the narrator in the story "Seeing Ershadi" have in her career?

6. Why does Shlomi suggest Tamar does not like Ilana's relationship with Sandor?

7. How does Sophie deal with her first breakup from Ezra?

8. What view of nature does the landscape architect have?

9. Why does the narrator think the person she passes on the street who is wearing a gas mask is wearing the mask at the end of "Future Emergencies"?

10. What is one clear event that Sophie remembers led to her and Ezra's final breakup?

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