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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 136 - 181).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What game does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" play with her partner?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Operation.
(c) Dominoes.
(d) Chess.
2. What is Ershadi's character in the narrator's favorite film with Ershadi considering in the film?
(a) Retirement.
(b) Having a child.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Marriage.
3. What makes the narrator think of Ershadi again for the first time years after she thinks she saw him in real life?
(a) She passes a poster for her favorite Ershadi film playing in her neighborhood.
(b) She comes across an Ershadi film on television.
(c) She sees a report that Ershadi has died.
(d) Her husband tells her he loved Ershadi films too.
4. What startles the narrator in "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" in the very end of the story?
(a) Finding her old boyfriend at the airport.
(b) Finding Boaz in her father's bed.
(c) Finding a snake in her apartment.
(d) Finding she has been fired inexplicably.
5. How do the narrator and the person she lives with first meet in the story "Future Emergencies"?
(a) He was once her neighbor.
(b) He is her former professor.
(c) They met in a book club.
(d) He is her younger brother's friend.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the narrator's father's first name?
2. Who comes to see the landscape architect and takes him away for a time?
3. What does the narrator keep on his windowsill?
4. What does the narrator realize about herself one day early in the story "Seeing Ershadi" in relation to her work?
5. What does the narrator think is the most extraordinary thing about the ending of her favorite Ershadi film?
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