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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people ask Maria and Nathan about while in church?
(a) Their marriage.
(b) Their expected child.
(c) Their affair.
(d) Their house rennovations.

2. Whose temptations differ from Henry's after being put on heart medication?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Maria.
(c) Wendy.
(d) Carol.

3. What does Henry believe Nathan's book makes their family appear to be?
(a) Dumb.
(b) Annoying.
(c) Happy.
(d) Ridiculous.

4. What is Nathan glad no one at church asks him about?
(a) His trip to Israel.
(b) His hosue rennovations.
(c) His marriage.
(d) His affair.

5. Who is revealed as the person sitting next to Nathan on an airplane?
(a) Henry.
(b) Jimmy Ben-Joseph.
(c) Shuki.
(d) Lippman.

6. What do readers want to know about Nathan's books?
(a) If they're expensive.
(b) If they're fact or fiction.
(c) If they're worth reading.
(d) If they're worth money.

7. Who reads verses from the Bible in church?
(a) Georgina.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Maria.
(d) Maria's mother.

8. Whom does Sarah say insulting things about?
(a) Nathan and her family.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Maria.
(d) Her family.

9. Who continues to reference Nathan's book, causing him to be unable to forget things he wishes to forget?
(a) Nathan's first wife.
(b) Nathan's eulogist.
(c) Nathan's third wife.
(d) Carol.

10. Whose letter annoys Nathan?
(a) Maria's.
(b) Carol's.
(c) Henry's.
(d) Shuki's.

11. With whom does Nathan attend a Christmas church service?
(a) Phoebe.
(b) Maria.
(c) Henry and Maria.
(d) Maria and Phoebe.

12. Who says Maria's Jewish friend smells?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Henry.
(c) Her father.
(d) Maria.

13. Whose unhappy marriage and divorce does Nathan think about while in church?
(a) Maria's.
(b) Maria's parents.
(c) His parents.
(d) Henry and Carol.

14. What does Sarah call Nathan?
(a) A jerk.
(b) A bastard.
(c) A moral guinea pig.
(d) A pig.

15. What does Nathan warn Henry about?
(a) Health conditions.
(b) Dying.
(c) Bad times.
(d) Fanaticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jimmy claim to have in his possession?

2. According to Maria, who does not stay married for long?

3. Where does Henry go after Nathan's funeral?

4. What does Henry do when he throws away Nathan's papers?

5. What type of note does Jimmy Ben-Joseph show Henry?

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