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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. What does Leo see?
(a) A photo album.
(b) A piano.
(c) A book.
(d) A typewriter.

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

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

4. Why does Bird pretend to be sick again?
(a) He wants to stay with Alma.
(b) He thinks he knows how he can help Alma.
(c) He is planning his trip to Israel.
(d) He does not like school.

5. What does Leo do when he calls the magazine's fiction department?
(a) He argues that he wrote the story.
(b) He tells them that Isaac Moritz did not write the story.
(c) He thanks them for printing the article.
(d) He argues about whether or not Isaac Moritz wrote the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. The summer ends. Are Alma and Misha speaking?

2. Years earlier, what does Leo do when he finds out what kind of typewriter Isaac uses?

3. Why does Alma leave and head to the City Clerk's office?

4. Why does Bird give Alma an orange life jacket as a present?

5. Why does Zvi add this last chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Bird written in his journal?

2. What does Leo do when he goes upstairs?

3. What does Leo do when he sits in front of the typewriter?

4. What does Zvi do when he reaches the last page?

5. What does Zvi not think about when he copies the pages of Leo's book?

6. What happens when Alma Singer ends up at the address given for Alma Moritz?

7. What does Leo believe about this manuscript, regarding Isaac?

8. What does Alma do when she arrives at the Municipal Archives? What happens when she goes to the City Clerk's office?

9. How does Bird react when the rain stops and the firemen tear down his ark?

10. Why does Bird pretend to be sick?

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