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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 is one thing in the box Sam finds in his closet that Tyler left to him?
2. What does Julian think to himself that he is good at while sitting in his and Hephzibah's bedroom?
3. What is Kaddish?
4. Why does Julian help a fifteen-year-old boy?
5. What does Julian feel he cannot handle?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Libor do in Beachy Head?
2. What does Emmy say about Libor's attitude towards his fellow Jews?
3. Where does Libor invite Emmy and what concerns him about doing so?
4. Why is Hephzibah concerned about the opening to the museum?
5. What does Sam think is so beautiful about Kaddish?
6. What man interests Sam and what does Hephzibah say about the man and his friends?
7. Who is Meyer Abramsky and what did he do?
8. How does Julian cause Libor to cry?
9. What has happened to Immanuel?
10. What interrupts Sam's plans to play online poker?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. Who is/are the protagonists of the story and why?
2. Who is/are the antagonists of the story and why?
3. Which 3 secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot?
4. Are any of the characters dispensable and which ones? Why or why not?
5. Do you think this is a character-driven plot or an action-driven plot? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Howard Jacobson.
2. What in Jacobson's background may have helped him in writing The Finkler Question? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?
3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.
Essay Topic 3
When Sam first hears that his son was involved in an anti-Semitic incident, he thinks his friends are playing a prank on him to teach him a lesson for his insensitivity earlier in the evening, but since that seems unlikely and he is unable to reach his children when he attempts to contact them, he hires a limo to drive him to Oxford, demonstrating his paternal sentiments. During the drive, he is irrationally anxious, and he curls into a ball and cries because he feels he let Tyler down since he promised to make their children his first priority before she died. He likes his children and wants to make amends for being uninterested in them when they were younger, but he worries it is too late now and wonders if his neglect somehow contributed to the attack.
1. What do you think Sam believing his friends would play a prank on him that involves Antisemitism says about Sam or his friends and their friendship. Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
2. Do you think Sam's behavior on the way to his daughter's house is over reacting? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
3. Do you think when children are adults and a parent has not paid much attention to them the relationship can be changed or is it too late? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and the book to support your answer.
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