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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Carol do abroad that Brodman does not understand?
2. Who are Noa's parents?
3. What had Brodman's mother done for a living?
4. When does the businessman show up in Soraya's life for the first time?
5. Which daughter of Brodman's had been hospitalized because of mental health problems?
Short Essay Questions
1. What understanding passes between the bride and Noa about parents during their brief meeting?
2. What task does Noa have to perform to help her parents' divorce become finalized?
3. How does the narrator meet Soraya in the story "Switzerland"?
4. As an elderly man, what is Brodman's own assessment of the job he did as a father to two daughters?
5. What does the ordeal of delivering the flowers for the wedding through the wildfire seem to symbolize for Noa?
6. Why is the narrator of "Switzerland" so transfixed by Soraya?
7. Why does Brodman take his infant grandson to the roof at the end of the story?
8. In "Switzerland," what is the narrator's father's relationship to physical trauma?
9. What is one major aspect of Leonard's and Monica's divorce that bothers Noa in the story "End Days?"
10. When and how does Soraya's relationship with the Dutch banker come crashing down?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the story "Future Emergencies," what is the symbolism of the gas masks, and why does the unnamed narrator get so upset at seeing victor wear his? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How would you describe the nature of the unnamed narrator's relationship with Victor in the story "End Days," and how does her discovery of her pregnancy change it? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay discussing Krauss's treatment of the themes of both familial and religious obligations in the story "Zusya on the Roof."
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