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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 grandparents lost each other during the war.
(b) His father was lost in the war.
(c) His mother died when he was a baby.
(d) His grandparents never got married.

2. What is Tamar's brother's nickname for her that goes back to childhood?
(a) Tash.
(b) Tam.
(c) Marie.
(d) Tammy.

3. Where does Tamar's mother live in Tel Aviv in the story "The Husband"?
(a) Barabella Sreet.
(b) Shalom Street.
(c) Tchernichovsky Street.
(d) Avenue B.

4. When do Sophie and Ezra get back together again after an initial break-up?
(a) 2020.
(b) 2030.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2000.

5. What does Romi tell the narrator she noticed for the first time some years after watching their favorite Ershadi film upon a second viewing of the film?
(a) The screen is not really black at the end and the viewer can see rain falling.
(b) She actually likes the other actor in the film better than she likes Ershadi.
(c) Ershadi looks much older in the film than she realized.
(d) Ershadi never smiles in the film.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Shlomi and his partner go to find a surrogate parent for their child?

2. What does Sophie look like when the narrator first encounters her in the refugee camp?

3. When did Romi's parents divorce in "Seeing Ershadi"?

4. What does the narrator tell the landscape architect about his gardens at one point in relation to God?

5. What do the generals use one of the landscape architect's parks that he designed for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the ultimate reason the authorities give for distributing gas masks?

4. What discovery at the end of the story "Future Emergencies" changes the path of the narrator's and Victor's relationship?

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

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

7. What do the generals persuade the landscape architect to do in the story "In the Garden?"

8. What does Romi tell the narrator she sees differently watching the film Taste of Cherry years after seeing it for the first time?

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

10. 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"?

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