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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. As Misha moves his hand under Alma's shirt, what does she do?
(a) She screams.
(b) She tells him to stop and says she likes someone else.
(c) She sits, frozen.
(d) She angrily pushes him away.
2. When do the Nazis invade the boy's hometown of Slonim?
(a) In 1941.
(b) In 1939.
(c) In 1938.
(d) In 1940.
3. What does Leo find when he goes up to Bruno's apartment?
(a) Bernard is in Bruno's apartment.
(b) The apartment is empty.
(c) Bruno is watching television.
(d) A note saying "Do Not Disturb. Gift Under Your Pillow."
4. How does the boy escape death?
(a) He becomes a Nazi.
(b) He works hard in a concentration camp.
(c) He runs away to Russia.
(d) He hides.
5. From where does most of the information about Zvi come?
(a) His book.
(b) Letters to his wife.
(c) The introduction his wife, Roas, wrote when the book was reissued after his death.
(d) His autobiography.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Zvi read through while he stays with his friend?
2. What does Zvi, when leaving, put in his pocket?
3. What notebook does Alma begin to keep?
4. Pained that he does not know his son in the same way, what does Leo do?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what does Leo Gursky sign up? What does Bruno think about this?
2. How does Alma first begin her search for Alma Mereminski? What is the result of this search?
3. Why is Leo surprised to see a copy of his book? How does this make him feel?
4. What takes place in the book that seems to coincide with his life?
5. How does David Singer get a copy of The History of Love?
6. What does Alma do when Jacob Marcus sends a response to her letter?
7. What had Isaac found of his mother's? What do these things make him believe?
8. What has Alma learned about Alma Mereminski? What does she believe is the connection between Mereminski and Litvinoff?
9. Why does Leo go into an empty bedroom in Bernard's house?
10. How do Charlotte and Alma deal with David's death?
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