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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator tell the landscape architect about his gardens at one point in relation to God?
(a) God is indifferent to his gardens.
(b) God dwells in his gardens.
(c) God has shunned his gardens.
(d) God probably uses his gardens as insipration.

3. What irrational thought does the narrator have when she thinks she sees Ershadi for the first time in real life?
(a) He looks like he is about to die.
(b) They might be lovers.
(c) She can save him from the fate of his character in her favorite film of his.
(d) He looks like he is lonely.

4. What do the narrator and the landscape architect do in their last years together?
(a) Play chess.
(b) Separate.
(c) Travel.
(d) Take dance classes.

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

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

7. Where does the narrator meet Sophie years after they lose touch?
(a) A musuem.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A refugee camp.
(d) The hospital.

8. What does the narrator tell the reader about the ending to her favorite Ershadi film?
(a) It is sad.
(b) It is happy.
(c) It is predictable.
(d) It is utterly jarring.

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

10. Who comes to see the landscape architect and takes him away for a time?
(a) The dancers.
(b) The priests.
(c) The president.
(d) The generals.

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

12. What is Ershadi's character in the narrator's favorite film with Ershadi considering in the film?
(a) Having a child.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Retirement.

13. Where does the narrator move a few years after 9/11 in the story "Amour"?
(a) Barcelona.
(b) London.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

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

15. What is Tamar's mother's name in the story "The Husband"?
(a) Rachel Singer.
(b) Sarah Strauss.
(c) Ilana Paz.
(d) Martha Stanz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator's closest friend during the early part of the story "Seeing Ershadi"?

2. Where does Tamar's mother live in Tel Aviv in the story "The Husband"?

3. Which boyfriend of Romi's has a tendency to be possessive of her?

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

5. What are the lower gardens in the heart of the public park replaced with, at the generals' behest?

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