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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 93 - 135).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is supposed to check on Noa while her parents are out of the country?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her uncle, Rabbi Strauss.
(d) Jack and Roberta Berkowitz, her parents' oldest friends.

2. What game does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" play with her partner?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Dominoes.
(c) Operation.
(d) Chess.

3. What does the narrator see concerning Soraya that alarms her after she has been seeing the businessman for a while?
(a) Soraya has lost a tooth.
(b) Soraya limping.
(c) Soraya covering her black eye.
(d) A bruise on Soraya's throat.

4. What language does Soraya speak with her own family?
(a) English.
(b) German.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Farsi.

5. Where does Noa's father's excavation work often take him?
(a) Megiddo.
(b) Tempe.
(c) Methala.
(d) Uganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find herself thinking that no place in Tel Aviv is ever far from?

2. How do the narrator and the person she lives with first meet in the story "Future Emergencies"?

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

4. What does Brodman's wife show him that she has bought for the baby that enrages him?

5. What irrational thought does the narrator have when she thinks she sees Ershadi for the first time in real life?

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