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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 does the narrator do most days after work?

2. How does the landscape architect describe himself?

3. What does the narrator's partner in "Future Emergencies" think about the Middle Ages, according to her?

4. How do the narrator and the person she lives with first meet in the story "Future Emergencies"?

5. What do the narrator and the landscape architect do in their last years together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sophie sometimes do in the refugee camp to keep the others amused?

3. How does the narrator in the story "Future Emergencies" feel about the gas masks?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What connections does Krauss draw between illness, death, rebirth, and renewal in the story "Zusya on the Roof"? How has Brodman's character changed in significant ways from the beginning of the story to the end? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How would you describe the unnamed narrator's feelings about the famous landscape architect's interactions with the generals in the story "In the Garden," which result in the generals using one of the architect's gardens to bury bodies of executed prisoners in? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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