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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. Where does Noa work?
2. Which daughter of Brodman's has a significant life event while he is in a coma?
3. Who comes to Brodman's grandson's Bris that makes Brodman uncomfortable?
4. What does the stranger assume about the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
5. Who is Brodman's wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. What difference of opinion do Noa and her sister Rachel have about Leonard's and Monica's divorce?
2. In "Switzerland," what is the narrator's father's relationship to physical trauma?
3. What does the narrator initially think of Boaz when he shows up unexpectedly at her father's apartment?
4. What event coincides with Brodman's near-death experience?
5. Why does Brodman take his infant grandson to the roof at the end of the story?
6. 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"?
7. What do Marie, Soraya, and the narrator all have in common in the story "Switzerland"?
8. How and to whom does Noa lose her virginity?
9. As an elderly man, what is Brodman's own assessment of the job he did as a father to two daughters?
10. When and how does Soraya's relationship with the Dutch banker come crashing down?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the story "The Husband," what initially makes Tamar so angry at hearing her mother's story of her visit from social services in Tel Aviv, during which she is told her long-lost "husband" has been found? Why does Tamar get so angry at this? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How would you describe the nature of the unnamed narrator's relationship with Victor in the story "End Days," and how does her discovery of her pregnancy change it? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
What ideas or emotions is Krauss trying to communicate with the unnamed narrator's and her friend Romi's strong feelings and experiences linked to the famous actor Ershaid, and their "encounters" with him, in the story "Seeing Ershadi"? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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