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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 realize about herself one day early in the story "Seeing Ershadi" in relation to her work?
(a) She has become fanatical.
(b) She has become detached from her work.
(c) She has started to feel as if she is not good at what she does.
(d) She has become completely suspicious of her supervisor.

2. What is Ershadi's character in the narrator's favorite film with Ershadi considering in the film?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Retirement.
(c) Having a child.
(d) Suicide.

3. Where does the narrator think she actually does see Ershadi in real life?
(a) In the Sydney Opera House.
(b) In a museum in France.
(c) In a Zen garden in Japan.
(d) In a restaurant in Barcelona.

4. How do the narrator and the person she lives with first meet in the story "Future Emergencies"?
(a) He is her former professor.
(b) He is her younger brother's friend.
(c) He was once her neighbor.
(d) They met in a book club.

5. What does the narrator keep on his windowsill?
(a) A little pewter box.
(b) An emerald.
(c) A picture of his mother.
(d) A picture of his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does the narrator have in the story "Seeing Ershadi"?

2. Which film of Ershadi's is the narrator's favorite?

3. What do the narrator and the landscape architect do in their last years together?

4. What happens to the narrator spontaneously during her job in the story "Seeing Ershadi"?

5. What impresses Shlomi about "the husband" that he tells Tamar during their first phone conversation about him?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. How does Krauss explain the details of how the narrator and Sophie end up in a refugee camp?

3. How does the narrator in the story "In the Garden" convince the famous landscape architect to hire him?

4. What prompts the narrator to get back in touch with Romi again after many years of not communicating?

5. What is the narrator's reaction when she thinks she sees the actor Ershadi in real life?

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

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

8. What does Victor do to try to prepare for whatever disaster may befall them in the story "Future Emergencies"?

9. What experience does Romi tell the narrator about Ershadi?

10. What annoys Tamar about Ilana's story about how she met Sandor?

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