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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 Noa have to deliver to the rabbi in the story "End Days"?
(a) Her father's check.
(b) Her parents' judgement of divorce papers.
(c) Her baby's outfit for the bris.
(d) Her ring.

2. Where does the narrator meet Soraya in the story "Switzerland"?
(a) Germany.
(b) New York.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Israel.

3. When did the narrator's mother pass away?
(a) When she was twenty.
(b) When she was three.
(c) When she was fourteen.
(d) When she was eight.

4. Where is the narrator's father's apartment that she stays in in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?
(a) Miami.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Tel Aviv.
(d) San Francisco.

5. Where does the narrator like to try on clothes after school in the story "Switzerland"?
(a) H and M.
(b) Cross.
(c) Debenham's.
(d) Oasis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Mrs. Elderfield tighten the rules and regulations in her house further?

2. What does the narrator find in the drawer of her father's night table in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?

3. Who had been Noa's father's second-in-command in archaeological digs when she was a child?

4. What does the stranger assume about the narrator in the story "I Am Asleep but My Heart Is Awake"?

5. What does the narrator spend hours after school doing in "Switzerland"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and to whom does Noa lose her virginity?

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

3. In "Switzerland," what is the narrator's father's relationship to physical trauma?

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

5. How does the narrator meet Soraya in the story "Switzerland"?

6. What is one major aspect of Leonard's and Monica's divorce that bothers Noa in the story "End Days?"

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

8. What do Marie, Soraya, and the narrator all have in common in the story "Switzerland"?

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

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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