Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color are Brod's eyes?
(a) Brown.
(b) Blue.
(c) One blue and one green.
(d) One blue and one brown.

2. Who wrote the "Letter Dated 23 September 1997"?
(a) Alex.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Yankel.

3. What does Yankel dream about?
(a) He dreams about living forever with Brod.
(b) He dreams about traveling to America.
(c) He dreams about his work.
(d) He dreams about his ex-wife.

4. Who wins the second lottery?
(a) Chana.
(b) Sofiowka.
(c) Brod.
(d) Yankel.

5. What do both Alex and Jonathan believe about the people in the photograph?
(a) They think the people are dead.
(b) They think the people are sad.
(c) They think the people are beautiful.
(d) They think the people are in love.

6. What is Grandfather hired to do?
(a) Drive the car.
(b) Cook.
(c) Translate.
(d) Park cars.

7. What is The Book of Recurrent Dreams?
(a) A book about following dreams.
(b) A book in which congregants write dreams they have had.
(c) A book in which the history of Trachimbrod is written.
(d) A book about the dreams of prophets.

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

9. What does Alex do with the money he makes?
(a) He goes to the discotheques.
(b) He spends it on women.
(c) He gives it to Little Igor.
(d) He saves it.

10. What does Jonathan imagine Brod looks like?
(a) Thin with blonde hair.
(b) Chubby with mismatched eyes.
(c) Skinny with dark hair.
(d) Tall with green eyes.

11. What "terrible thing" does Yankel feel father's have the right to do?
(a) Give them away at their wedding.
(b) Hit them.
(c) Read their daughter's diary.
(d) Feel lonely.

12. What name is chosen for the shtetl in a lottery?
(a) Trachimbrod.
(b) Brod.
(c) Shtetl.
(d) Sofiowka.

13. Where does Yankel write his life history?
(a) He writes it on his bedroom ceiling.
(b) He writes it in the Book of Antecedents.
(c) He writes it in the Book of Recurrent Dreams.
(d) He writes it in his diary.

14. What evidence does Yankel, Brod's "father," give that Brod's "mother" loved him?
(a) Jewelry her "mother" gave him.
(b) Photographs.
(c) Books Brod's mother gave him.
(d) Love letters that Yankel wrote to himself with his left hand.

15. What does Yankel wear that distinguishes him from everyone else?
(a) A blue bowler hat with a black ribbon.
(b) A black tie.
(c) An incriminating abacus bead on a string.
(d) An innocent white flower in his lapel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout the novel, who is Jonathan looking for?

2. Who said "We must go backward in order to go forward" (37)?

3. How do Brod and Yankel earn a living?

4. What lie does Yankel tell himself?

5. Why is Sammy Davis Junior, Junior with the group?

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