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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the original manuscript?
(a) It is left in Poland.
(b) It is lost when their home is flooded.
(c) It is sent to Leo.
(d) It is thrown away.

2. What does this person tell Leo he likes?
(a) His apartment.
(b) The writing.
(c) Cake.
(d) Alma.

3. What does Leo note about Bernard, Isaac's half-brother?
(a) He looks much like him.
(b) He looks much like his father, Mordecai.
(c) He looks much like Isaac.
(d) He looks much like Alma.

4. What does Leo find when he goes up to Bruno's apartment?
(a) The apartment is empty.
(b) A note saying "Do Not Disturb. Gift Under Your Pillow."
(c) Bernard is in Bruno's apartment.
(d) Bruno is watching television.

5. How many copies are printed?
(a) 100.
(b) 200.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

6. What does Zvi do with his friend's work?
(a) He throws it away.
(b) He mouths the words as a prayer for life.
(c) He reads it to his friend.
(d) He steals it.

7. How many years have passed since the day that Leo remembers?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 60 years.

8. What does Zvi do more as the years go by?
(a) Forgets memories.
(b) Becomes depressed.
(c) Coughs.
(d) Writes books.

9. What does Misha ask Alma about Alma Mereminski?
(a) What happens to her character in the book.
(b) Why she thinks this Alma is a real person.
(c) Where Alma lives.
(d) Why she has not contacted Mereminski.

10. Where does Alma's father David meet Alma's mother, Charlotte?
(a) In Chile.
(b) In a concentration camp.
(c) In the United States.
(d) On an Israeli kibbutz.

11. How does Rosa help Zvi?
(a) She helps translate the book from Yiddish into Spanish.
(b) She helps him get into contact with Leo.
(c) She helps him translate the book from German into Spanish.
(d) She helps him write his book.

12. From where does most of the information about Zvi come?
(a) His autobiography.
(b) His book.
(c) The introduction his wife, Roas, wrote when the book was reissued after his death.
(d) Letters to his wife.

13. What does Bruno think about the class?
(a) He is bored with nothing better to do.
(b) He thinks he signed up to see naked women.
(c) He needs to make some extra money.
(d) He thinks it would be great to be seen so completely by others.

14. How does the boy escape death?
(a) He becomes a Nazi.
(b) He hides.
(c) He runs away to Russia.
(d) He works hard in a concentration camp.

15. How many books does Leo write before turning 21?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Uncle Julian, Charlotte's brother, sent Alma her father's old Swiss Army knife, saying it helps one survive in the wilderness, and that her father was a great outdoors man. What does Alma decide to do?

2. What does Leo see when he arrives at Bernard's house?

3. After whom is Alma Singer named?

4. What does Alma do when Bird asks about their father?

5. When did Rosa meet Zvi in Valparaiso?

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