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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. How long ago did the famous landscape architect say he planted some of the trees in his works?
(a) Ten years ago.
(b) More than half a century ago.
(c) One hundred years ago.
(d) Twenty years ago.

2. What does the narrator realize about herself one day early in the story "Seeing Ershadi" in relation to her work?
(a) She has become completely suspicious of her supervisor.
(b) She has started to feel as if she is not good at what she does.
(c) She has become fanatical.
(d) She has become detached from her work.

3. What startles the narrator in "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" in the very end of the story?
(a) Finding a snake in her apartment.
(b) Finding Boaz in her father's bed.
(c) Finding her old boyfriend at the airport.
(d) Finding she has been fired inexplicably.

4. Who comes to see the landscape architect and takes him away for a time?
(a) The dancers.
(b) The generals.
(c) The president.
(d) The priests.

5. What does the man who visits Tamar's mother tell Tamar's mother about his own family?
(a) His grandparents lost each other during the war.
(b) His father was lost in the war.
(c) His grandparents never got married.
(d) His mother died when he was a baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which very famous film director's work does the narrator spend a few weeks watching?

2. Who is the friend of the narrator's father who gives her the keys for his apartment?

3. What does the narrator do most days after work?

4. What is the name of the only person at the rabbi's house when Noa arrives?

5. What happens in the landscape architect's final years?

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