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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alma print?

2. How does Alma feel when she finds out her mother had sent more chapters to Jacob Marcus?

3. What is written in Zvi's friend's handwriting?

4. What does Julian ask Alma to do?

5. What does Zvi then do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Bird confused by Alma's book?

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

3. What has Bird written in his journal?

4. What happens the night before Zvi dies?

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

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

7. Why does Alma become upset when she gets home?

8. How does Alma uncover the mystery about Jacob Marcus?

9. About what does Julina tell Alma while they are out to dinner?

10. What does Alma do on Saturday morning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alma is hesitant about her relationship with Misha.

Part 1) Describe her relationship with Misha. What does Alma know about love up to this point?

Part 2) How does her view of love affect her relationship with Misha.

Part 3) When does she realize she is falling in love with him? What is ironic about this?

Essay Topic 2

Isaac is Leo's son.

Part 1) How is this discovered? What foreshadows this discovery?

Part 2) Does Isaac know he is Leo's son? Why or why not?

Part 3) How do various clues discovered throughout this story related to what Isaac might know about Leo affect Leo? Why?

Part 4) How does Leo feel about never knowing his son? How does he handle Isaac's death?

Essay Topic 3

Alma Singer searches for Alma Mereminski.

Part 1) Why does she search for her?

Part 2) How does her quest for finding Alma Mereminski change her? Why is she changed?

Part 3) What is the connection between her search and the events that take place in Leo Gursky's life?

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