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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Along the way, what does Alma tell Herman?
(a) How much she cares about Misha.
(b) Her feelings on love.
(c) The story about The History of Love.
(d) Her life.

2. What does the doorman tell Alma about Alma Mereminski?
(a) She died five years ago.
(b) She is divorced.
(c) She is not home.
(d) She has moved.

3. On Zvi's last morning in Poland, what does he watch his friend do?
(a) Disappear around the corner.
(b) Go into his house.
(c) Join the Nazis.
(d) Leave in a bus.

4. Where does Alma search for drafts of letters?
(a) In her mother's drawers.
(b) On the desk.
(c) The garbage.
(d) On the table.

5. What does Zvi do the night before he marries Rosa?
(a) He burns the manuscript.
(b) He reads his book to her.
(c) He digs up the manuscript, kept the book in a locked desk drawer and hid the key.
(d) He stops writing letters to Leo.

6. Where would Zvi eventually settle?
(a) In Venezuela.
(b) In Chile.
(c) In America.
(d) In Argentina.

7. What does Alma print?
(a) A map and directions to Isaac Moritz's house,
(b) A picture for Bird.
(c) A letter from Jabob.
(d) An e-mail from her father.

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

9. What is her response to Leo's letter?
(a) Zvi wants no contact with Leo.
(b) Zvi has just passed away.
(c) Zvi is too ill to respond but is happy to hear Leo is still alive.
(d) Zvi does not believe Leo is alive.

10. For how many days does Bird write that it has been raining?
(a) Ten days in a row.
(b) Five days in a row.
(c) Fifteen days in a row.
(d) Twenty days in a row.

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

12. Why does Alma leave and head to the City Clerk's office?
(a) The man says she never married.
(b) The man says she is still alive.
(c) The man says he does not have time to help her.
(d) The man says he only has information on marriages up until 1937.

13. What does Leo do when no one answers?
(a) He walks to the back of the house.
(b) He leaves.
(c) He calls the house.
(d) He calls Isaac at work.

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

15. What does Bird find?
(a) Money.
(b) Pages from The History of Love.
(c) Her sketchbook.
(d) Her diary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Leo tracked Isaac's whereabouts?

2. What does Zvi do the night before he dies?

3. What does Zvi recite?

4. Who does Charlotte take Bird to see?

5. Leo sits in front of the typewriter and thinks about who?

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