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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. When does Mrs. Elderfield realize the trouble Soraya is actually in?
(a) When the police bring Soraya home.
(b) When Soraya fails to come home one night.
(c) When Soraya's mother comes looking for her.
(d) When Soraya's sister calls to tell Mrs. Elderfield what is really going on.

2. What does Romi tell the narrator she noticed for the first time some years after watching their favorite Ershadi film upon a second viewing of the film?
(a) The screen is not really black at the end and the viewer can see rain falling.
(b) Ershadi never smiles in the film.
(c) She actually likes the other actor in the film better than she likes Ershadi.
(d) Ershadi looks much older in the film than she realized.

3. Where does the narrator think she actually does see Ershadi in real life?
(a) In a restaurant in Barcelona.
(b) In a Zen garden in Japan.
(c) In the Sydney Opera House.
(d) In a museum in France.

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

5. Where does Brodman take his infant grandson without telling anyone in the end of the story?
(a) His own apartment.
(b) The church down the block.
(c) The apartment building's roof.
(d) The park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to Brodman's grandson's Bris that makes Brodman uncomfortable?

2. What is threatening the area where Noa lives?

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

4. Where did Brodman work for most of his career?

5. What startles the narrator in "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" in the very end of the story?

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