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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man who visits Tamar's mother tell Tamar's mother about his own family?
(a) His grandparents lost each other during the war.
(b) His grandparents never got married.
(c) His mother died when he was a baby.
(d) His father was lost in the war.

2. What does Tamar's mother do with "the husband" that she never does on her own?
(a) Goes to the beach.
(b) Goes out to dinner in a restaurant.
(c) Goes gambling.
(d) Goes for a drink in a bar.

3. What do the generals use one of the landscape architect's parks that he designed for?
(a) To place sculptures of themselves.
(b) To bury bodies of people they executed.
(c) To start a new playground for children.
(d) To store their weapons.

4. Where does Tamar live?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York City.
(d) Barcelona.

5. Where do Shlomi and his partner go to find a surrogate parent for their child?
(a) Thailand.
(b) China.
(c) Nepal.
(d) Brazil.

6. What is the name of the estate the narrator says only the luckiest would get to see the garden of in the story "In the Garden"?
(a) The Sanctuary.
(b) Robleton.
(c) Three Winds.
(d) Five Clouds.

7. What does the narrator think is the most extraordinary thing about the ending of her favorite Ershadi film?
(a) Ershadi's character survives.
(b) Ershadi becomes a ghost.
(c) The viewer does not ever really know what happens to Ershadi.
(d) Ershadi sacrifices himself for his lover.

8. What does the narrator keep on his windowsill?
(a) A little pewter box.
(b) An emerald.
(c) A picture of his mother.
(d) A picture of his father.

9. What does the narrator take out of storage for the landscape architect in his last years that he wears often?
(a) His custom-made slippers.
(b) His father's fur coat.
(c) His old baseball hat.
(d) His silk pajamas.

10. Who is Tamar's brother?
(a) Henry.
(b) Shlomi.
(c) Sandor.
(d) Ben.

11. When do Sophie and Ezra get back together again after an initial break-up?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2030.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2020.

12. What was going on in Romi's life when she first saw the narrator's favorite Ershadi film?
(a) She was pregnant with her first child.
(b) She was getting married.
(c) Her father was dying.
(d) She had just dropped out of school.

13. What does the narrator do most days after work?
(a) Calls her boyfriend.
(b) Walks to the sea or goes home to watch a movie.
(c) Calls her mother.
(d) Goes for a large dinner.

14. What does the city pass out to all its residents in the story "Future Emergencies"?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Tylenol.
(c) Gas masks.
(d) Socks.

15. Who is the man Sophie has as a partner for many years?
(a) Ben.
(b) David.
(c) Eli.
(d) Ezra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" discover a few weeks after the emergency?

2. Who comes to Tamar's mother's door with shocking news in the story "The Husband"?

3. 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?

4. Which actor does the narrator feel is beautiful enough to live forever?

5. What impresses Shlomi about "the husband" that he tells Tamar during their first phone conversation about him?

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