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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 punishment does Amir say the Quran specifies for people like him, who have renounced their faith?
(a) Death.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Beheading.
(d) Exile.

2. How much longer has Amir been at the firm than Jory?
(a) Two years.
(b) Twice as long.
(c) One year.
(d) Six years.

3. Where was Amir say he was when his firm’s partners Steven and Jack talked to him this evening?
(a) In the street.
(b) In the rest room.
(c) In an employee meeting.
(d) In his office.

4. How is Amir acting toward Emily, as she is leaving?
(a) Furious.
(b) Distraught.
(c) Paranoid.
(d) Contrite.

5. What is Amir’s approach to airline security?
(a) He makes eye contact and reassuring glances at security.
(b) He offers himself to be searched.
(c) He does not fly.
(d) He wears his most expensive clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Amir say he saw a write-up of Emily’s museum show?

2. In Scene Three, when discussing art, what does Emily say Islam is still connected to?

3. What does Jory say she remembers of the Quran, from reading it in college?

4. What is Amir doing when Scene Four opens?

5. How does Amir say Muslims react to the pain of living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What historical circumstance complicates the question of Amir’s nationality?

2. What political position has Abe taken, as a result of the events that brought him back to Amir?

3. What is the significance of Abe’s arrival at the end of Scene 3?

4. What does Amir do to help Abe in Scene 4?

5. What does Amir tell Emily he wants for her, at the end, and what is Emily’s response?

6. What causes Isaac to tell Emily that she will make the “mistake in London” again?

7. What has happened in the intervening time between Scenes 3 and 4?

8. What is Amir likely seeing at the end of the play when he looks at the portrait Emily made of him, based on Velázquez’ Portrait of Juan de Pareja?

9. What grounds has Akhtar left the audience, by the end of the play, for feeling that there is a path to virtue and integrity?

10. In Scene 4, Amir says that Emily was right about him: what was she right about?

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