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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the narrator spontaneously during her job in the story "Seeing Ershadi"?
(a) She faints.
(b) She cries.
(c) She has terrible flashbacks to her childhood trauma.
(d) She gets headaches.

2. Which boyfriend of Romi's has a tendency to be possessive of her?
(a) Eli.
(b) Mark.
(c) Haroumi.
(d) Ryan.

3. What job does the narrator have in the story "Seeing Ershadi"?
(a) Singer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Dancer.
(d) Doctor.

4. Where is the narrator often drawn to at Three Winds?
(a) The chapel.
(b) The pine grove.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The lake.

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

6. What does Sophie look like when the narrator first encounters her in the refugee camp?
(a) As if she is in bad shape.
(b) Resilient and determined.
(c) Healthy.
(d) Much younger than the last time he saw her.

7. 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.

8. What does "the husband" hold, unexpectedly, when Tamar's mother first meets him in her apartment?
(a) The puppy.
(b) The kitten.
(c) The tea kettle.
(d) The neighbor's baby.

9. What impresses Shlomi about "the husband" that he tells Tamar during their first phone conversation about him?
(a) He has won a Pulitzer Prize.
(b) He has a Fields Medal.
(c) He is very wealthy.
(d) He has an Erdos number of one.

10. What country is the narrator's partner originally from in "Future Emergencies"?
(a) Germany.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) France.

11. What does the narrator's partner buy in preparation for the emergency in "Future Emergencies"?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Tape for the windows.
(c) More food than usual.
(d) Bleach.

12. What does the narrator of "Future Emergencies" discover a few weeks after the emergency?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) Her partner is cheating on her.
(c) She can cook well, too.
(d) She has cancer.

13. How long ago did the famous landscape architect say he planted some of the trees in his works?
(a) Ten years ago.
(b) One hundred years ago.
(c) More than half a century ago.
(d) Twenty years ago.

14. 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 sacrifices himself for his lover.
(c) Ershadi becomes a ghost.
(d) The viewer does not ever really know what happens to Ershadi.

15. What does the narrator say a garden depends on?
(a) The rain.
(b) The sun.
(c) The wind.
(d) The clouds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was going on in Romi's life when she first saw the narrator's favorite Ershadi film?

2. Where does the narrator mostly practice her job?

3. What does the city's mayor ultimately tell the public about the emergency in "Future Emergencies"?

4. Who is the man Sophie has as a partner for many years?

5. What does the narrator tell the landscape architect about his gardens at one point in relation to God?

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