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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 tell the landscape architect about his gardens at one point in relation to God?
(a) God is indifferent to his gardens.
(b) God dwells in his gardens.
(c) God has shunned his gardens.
(d) God probably uses his gardens as insipration.

2. What does the narrator do most days after work?
(a) Goes for a large dinner.
(b) Walks to the sea or goes home to watch a movie.
(c) Calls her boyfriend.
(d) Calls her mother.

3. Who is the man Sophie has as a partner for many years?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Ben.
(c) David.
(d) Eli.

4. Which actor does the narrator feel is beautiful enough to live forever?
(a) Louis Garrel.
(b) Richard Robel.
(c) Jean-Claude Van Damme.
(d) Henry Robinson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Sophie realize that she ultimately did not want to marry Ezra?

2. Who is the narrator's closest friend during the early part of the story "Seeing Ershadi"?

3. What game does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" play with her partner?

4. Where does Tamar live?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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