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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What preoccupies the narrator as she trails Boaz through the streets of Tel Aviv?
2. How does the narrator describe her cousins in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
3. What does Noa suggest the bride wear that is unconventional?
4. What does the bride ask Noa to do for her?
5. Who is Noa's boyfriend for a time before she breaks up with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What task does Noa have to perform to help her parents' divorce become finalized?
2. What does the narrator do for a living in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" and how does she feel about her work?
3. Why does Brodman take his infant grandson to the roof at the end of the story?
4. Why is the narrator of "Switzerland" so transfixed by Soraya?
5. What does the narrator seem to gather about Boaz's trip that she follows him on in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake"?
6. What difference of opinion do Noa and her sister Rachel have about Leonard's and Monica's divorce?
7. What event coincides with Brodman's near-death experience?
8. When and how does Soraya's relationship with the Dutch banker come crashing down?
9. What is one major aspect of Leonard's and Monica's divorce that bothers Noa in the story "End Days?"
10. What is one major thing that surprises the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" after her father's death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How would you describe the unnamed narrator's strongest feelings, fears, and desires regarding her two young sons in the story "To Be a Man"? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay comparing and contrasting the narrator's and the famous landscape architect's feelings about and approaches to nature in the story "In the Garden," citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why does the unnamed narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" become so intrigued by Boaz, and what does this feeling on the part of the narrator seem to reveal about her relationship to her deceased father? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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