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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Connie Walsh plan to help Kathy?
(a) By evicting the Behrani family.
(b) By placing her in a rehabilitation program.
(c) By helping her to find another house.
(d) By getting the county to rescind the sale or filing a lawsuit against them.

2. Why does Behrani maintain an expensive apartment although his income is low?
(a) Because he has signed an extended lease.
(b) Because he doesn't understand money.
(c) To impress his daughter's potential husbands.
(d) To impress his son's high school friends.

3. How does Behrani break the law when he sees Kathy at his house talking to Nadereh?
(a) He shakes her and shoves her into her car.
(b) He threatens her.
(c) He threatens her and hits her.
(d) He hits her.

4. Why is Behrani comfortable in the sheriff's office?
(a) He believes they are men of duty and discipline.
(b) He knows men in uniforms don't lie.
(c) It is air conditioned.
(d) He thinks marble halls are beautiful.

5. What does Behrani say to Kathy when she tells him that her father left her the house?
(a) "I will return the house to you if you pay me the market price."
(b) "You should tell these things to the bureaucrats who made the mistake."
(c) "I will call the police and charge you with trespassing."
(d) "I will shoot you if I see you again."

6. Why does Nadereh call Behmani a chicken?
(a) She thinks he's a coward.
(b) She thinks he's flighty and undependable.
(c) It is a term of endearment.
(d) She thinks his legs are too thin.

7. What two jobs is Behrani quitting?
(a) The convenience store and the city park.
(b) The tomato plant and the highway department.
(c) The army and the real estate office.
(d) The highway department and the convenience store.

8. Why does Behrani buy a wrecking bar?
(a) To work on the house.
(b) To tear down the widow's walk.
(c) To use as a weapon.
(d) To plant the for sale signs.

9. Why does Nadereh ask Kathy to write the things she has told her during their visit?
(a) She wants to show the sheriff.
(b) She understands written English better.
(c) She wants to show her husband.
(d) She wants to have written proof.

10. Why doesn't Behrani ever worry about his wife's housekeeping?
(a) He is too preoccupied to notice such things.
(b) She keeps every room spotless every day.
(c) He knows she will be angry if he inspects her work.
(d) He has much bigger problems.

11. Why doesn't Kathy explain the house situation to Frank?
(a) She realizes she can solve things herself.
(b) He's too busy to listen to her.
(c) He's obviously not interested in her problems.
(d) He makes her feel like a loser.

12. Where do Kathy and Lester spend the night together?
(a) A motel in Redwood City.
(b) His friend's trailer.
(c) A motel in San Bruno.
(d) His friend's fish camp.

13. What does Behrani do at the Sheriff's Office?
(a) He reports Kathy's threats to him.
(b) He admits his own wrongdoing.
(c) He reports Lester's threats to him.
(d) He reports the county's error in selling the house.

14. How does Nadereh react when her husband assaults Kathy?
(a) She calls the police.
(b) She helps him.
(c) She begs him to stop.
(d) She gets in the car with Kathy.

15. What does Kathy say about the Behranis in her house?
(a) "They are more at home there than I ever was."
(b) "They have been kind to me."
(c) "They are wonderful people."
(d) "They have offered to move."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Behrani's response when Connie Walsh tells him that Kathy has been wronged?

2. Why are Lester and Kathy both homeless?

3. Why does Kathy decide to talk to Nadereh alone?

4. How is Kathy injured when she goes to the house?

5. What bad news does Lester bring Kathy after he visits two more lawyers?

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