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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. Which actor does the narrator feel is beautiful enough to live forever?
(a) Jean-Claude Van Damme.
(b) Louis Garrel.
(c) Henry Robinson.
(d) Richard Robel.

2. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" discover a few weeks after the emergency?
(a) She can cook well, too.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) Her partner is cheating on her.
(d) She has cancer.

3. Who does Tamar's mother ask for help before she lets the strangers in at her door in the story "The Husband"?
(a) The woman next door.
(b) The new father from the floor above her apartment.
(c) Her son.
(d) The police.

4. What does the narrator find in the drawer of her father's night table in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) A gun.
(b) A knife.
(c) A small leather photo album.
(d) A Bible.

5. What was going on in Romi's life when she first saw the narrator's favorite Ershadi film?
(a) She had just dropped out of school.
(b) Her father was dying.
(c) She was getting married.
(d) She was pregnant with her first child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had been Noa's father's second-in-command in archaeological digs when she was a child?

2. What medication does the narrator take to soothe her sore ankle?

3. Who does Tamar's mother's visitor tell her the old man he has brought with him is?

4. In the story "Amour," where do Sophie and Ezra originally meet?

5. What job does the narrator have in the story "Seeing Ershadi"?

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