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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brodman's wife show him that she has bought for the baby that enrages him?
(a) An outfit with crowns on it.
(b) A rattle with silver.
(c) A rattle with gold.
(d) A moses basket.

2. What makes Mrs. Elderfield tighten the rules and regulations in her house further?
(a) The narrator gets arrested.
(b) Marie runs away.
(c) Marie gets into the cooking wine.
(d) Soraya begins failing school.

3. Who is the person who comes unannounced to the narrator's father's apartment?
(a) Boaz.
(b) James.
(c) Joshua.
(d) Henry.

4. Who is Soraya having dinner with when she first meets the businessman?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Noa's mother tell her about her grandmother that hurts her feelings?

2. Who are Noa's parents?

3. What does the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake" do for a living?

4. Whose clothes does Brodman wear to his grandchild's bris?

5. Who is Noa's boyfriend for a time before she breaks up with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event coincides with Brodman's near-death experience?

2. How does Brodman's wife Mira treat him in general?

3. As an elderly man, what is Brodman's own assessment of the job he did as a father to two daughters?

4. Why is the narrator of "Switzerland" so transfixed by Soraya?

5. What does the narrator initially think of Boaz when he shows up unexpectedly at her father's apartment?

6. What conclusion does the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake" come to about her father's feelings for New York and Tel Aviv?

7. What task does Noa have to perform to help her parents' divorce become finalized?

8. What is the narrator's strange dream in the beginning of the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart is Awake"?

9. In the story "Zusya on the Roof," what physical problems has Brodman just started to overcome?

10. Who, shockingly, reminds the narrator of "Switzerland" of Soraya decades after they have lived together, and how does this person remind her of Soraya?

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