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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. When did Romi's parents divorce in "Seeing Ershadi"?
(a) When she was 3.
(b) When she was 10.
(c) When she was 15.
(d) They did not divorce.

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

3. 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) She actually likes the other actor in the film better than she likes Ershadi.
(b) The screen is not really black at the end and the viewer can see rain falling.
(c) Ershadi never smiles in the film.
(d) Ershadi looks much older in the film than she realized.

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

5. What happens to the narrator spontaneously during her job in the story "Seeing Ershadi"?
(a) She gets headaches.
(b) She cries.
(c) She has terrible flashbacks to her childhood trauma.
(d) She faints.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator take out of storage for the landscape architect in his last years that he wears often?

2. What does Tamar's mother do with "the husband" that she never does on her own?

3. What does the narrator keep on his windowsill?

4. What does the narrator do when she thinks she sees Ershadi in real life?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. In the story "Future Emergencies," how does the narrator meet Victor?

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