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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 do many people think a piece of black plastic that hangs on a fence in the refugee camp looks like?
(a) A flag.
(b) A trash bag.
(c) An animal.
(d) A coat.

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

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

4. Which very famous film director's work does the narrator spend a few weeks watching?
(a) James Cameron.
(b) Francis Ford Coppola.
(c) Ingmar Bergman.
(d) Kathryn Bigelow.

5. What does the narrator's partner in "Future Emergencies" think about the Middle Ages, according to her?
(a) They are often misunderstood.
(b) They are a good example of why men should be educated and women should not.
(c) They were exemplary times.
(d) They were more passionate times than modern times are.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the story "In the Garden," what does the narrator do for a living?

2. Who does Tamar's mother ask for help before she lets the strangers in at her door in the story "The Husband"?

3. What does the narrator say a garden depends on?

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

5. Which boyfriend of Romi's has a tendency to be possessive of her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What irrational thought does the narrator have as she tries to catch up with Ershadi in the Zen garden?

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

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

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

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

6. 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"?

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

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

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

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

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