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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 182 - 225).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the narrator and the person she lives with first meet in the story "Future Emergencies"?
(a) He was once her neighbor.
(b) They met in a book club.
(c) He is her younger brother's friend.
(d) He is her former professor.

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) Ershadi looks much older in the film than she realized.
(d) She actually likes the other actor in the film better than she likes Ershadi.

3. Where does Shlomi live where Tamar and the rest of the family go to visit the new baby?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Jaffa.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Paris.

4. When did the narrator's mother pass away?
(a) When she was eight.
(b) When she was three.
(c) When she was twenty.
(d) When she was fourteen.

5. What does Tamar's friend suggest Tamar might be feeling about her mother's new relationship?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Suspicion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tamar's brother?

2. What is the name of "The husband"?

3. Whose clothes does Brodman wear to his grandchild's bris?

4. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" see someone wearing some time after the emergency that startles her?

5. How does the landscape architect describe himself?

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