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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 39 - 92).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Noa's parents?
(a) Leonard and Monica.
(b) Leonard and Ruth.
(c) Monica and David.
(d) David and Sarah.

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

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

4. Whose house does the narrator stay in while attending school in the story "Switzerland"?
(a) Mrs. Friendly's.
(b) Mr. Worthington's.
(c) Mrs. Elderfield's.
(d) Mr. Smith's.

5. Where did Brodman work for most of his career?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Stony Brook University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Columbia University.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens at the rabbi's house that Noa would never have expected?

3. What preoccupies the narrator as she trails Boaz through the streets of Tel Aviv?

4. Which daughter of Brodman's has a significant life event while he is in a coma?

5. What does the narrator's father's friend who comes unannounced to her father's apartment tell her he does for a living?

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