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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wedding Reception Was So Extraordinary or It All Goes Downhill After the Wedding, 1941; The Dupe of Chance, 1941-1924; The Thickness of Blood and Drama, 1934; Letter Dated 12 December 1997; What We Saw When We Saw Trachimbrod or Falling in Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is watching Brod when she finds Yankel?
(a) Safran.
(b) Kolker.
(c) No one.
(d) Sofiowka.

2. Where does Alex live?
(a) Germany.
(b) The Ukraine.
(c) Russia.
(d) America.

3. By the time she is twelve, how many men have proposed to Brod?
(a) Every man in the shtetl.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

4. When does the old woman want out of the car?
(a) When it makes noise.
(b) When it is stopped.
(c) When they get to Trachimbrod.
(d) When they ask too many questions.

5. When the old woman's father had the gun pointed at him and was told to do something or die, what did he do?
(a) He laughed.
(b) He cursed them.
(c) He refused.
(d) He did as he was told.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the "Letter Dated 23 September 1997"?

2. What do both Alex and Jonathan believe about the people in the photograph?

3. Who is the old woman?

4. What "terrible thing" does Yankel feel father's have the right to do?

5. At the end of "The Dial, 1941-1804-1941," Brod tells Kolker that she loves him and "for the first time in her life, the words had meaning" (139). Why do the words have meaning now?

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