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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bird write that he is going away?
(a) He loves Israel.
(b) He does not fit in here.
(c) He is a lamed vovnik and needs to take care of many things.
(d) He is tired of his family.

2. Years earlier, what does Leo do when he finds out what kind of typewriter Isaac uses?
(a) He buys the same model.
(b) He buys a new typewriter for his son.
(c) He buys a similar typewriter.
(d) He buys himself a new typewriter.

3. What has he come to find?
(a) His book.
(b) His son.
(c) Letters to Alma.
(d) His picture.

4. Where do Alma and Herman sit watching the rain?
(a) In the car.
(b) In a restaurant.
(c) From her porch.
(d) On Isaac Moritz's porch.

5. Why does Bird search through Alma's backpack again?
(a) For money.
(b) For clues.
(c) For her sketchbook.
(d) For her diary.

6. When does Leo use his purchase?
(a) When he writes his first book.
(b) He never uses it.
(c) Not until he writes his second book.
(d) Right away.

7. What has Leo lost?
(a) So many things.
(b) Alma.
(c) Not much.
(d) A few things.

8. Leo sits in front of the typewriter and thinks about who?
(a) His friends.
(b) His son.
(c) All the family members he has lost over the years.
(d) Alma.

9. What is printed at the top of the page, with Isaac's name beneath it?
(a) The title "Incredible."
(b) The title "Love That is Lost."
(c) The title "Words for Everything."
(d) The title "The History of Love."

10. What does Zvi do before he leaves?
(a) He says good bye to his friend.
(b) He walks around the town taking photographs.
(c) He copies the manuscript.
(d) He puts the package in his suitcase, looks around the room one last time.

11. How does Bird feel when he comes to the list?
(a) He cries.
(b) He does not understand it.
(c) He throws it away.
(d) He adds to it.

12. Sixteen years later, what has Zvi done?
(a) Written his own book.
(b) Written a letter to Leo every night.
(c) Copied a chapter from Leo's book every night, word for word, except for the names, all but one of which he changed.
(d) Read a page of Leo's book every night.

13. What has Bird tried to buy?
(a) A lemonade stand.
(b) A boat.
(c) A ticket to Israel.
(d) A tarp.

14. What does Bird sneak into Alma's room and grab?
(a) Her diary.
(b) Her money.
(c) A letter from Jacob Marcus.
(d) How to Survive in the Wild Volume 3.

15. When Leo gives the man his name, what does the man think?
(a) Leo is lying.
(b) Leo is crazy.
(c) Leo is joking.
(d) Leo is mad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zvi take from his coat?

2. How does Rosa destroy the manuscript?

3. What does Julian say about a self-portrait of Rembrandt?

4. What does Zvi do when the war ends?

5. Does Misha call Alma back?

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