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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. What happens at the rabbi's house that Noa would never have expected?
(a) Her car breaks down outside the the rabbi helps her fix it.
(b) She swims in the rabbi's pool.
(c) She loses her virginity.
(d) She has a heart attack.

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

3. What are the lower gardens in the heart of the public park replaced with, at the generals' behest?
(a) A new grove of trees.
(b) A field of wildflowers.
(c) A deep and shimmering lake.
(d) A pile of dirt.

4. Who does the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" dream is at the apartment door in the start of the story?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her father as a young child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator keep on his windowsill?

2. What does one of the influential visitors to the landscape architect lose that the narrator finds?

3. Who does Tamar's mother's visitor tell her the old man he has brought with him is?

4. Who is Soraya having dinner with when she first meets the businessman?

5. Where does Brodman take his infant grandson without telling anyone in the end of the story?

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