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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through If You Were a Horse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rivers does Abu Qais recall his teacher talking about?
(a) Tigris and Euphrates.
(b) Nile and Euphrates.
(c) Tigris and Nile.
(d) None of the above.

2. Who suggests to Abu Qais that he move to Kuwait?
(a) Assad.
(b) Saad.
(c) Ustaz Selim.
(d) Marwan.

3. What did the father do about the advice on the horse?
(a) He took their advice.
(b) He ignored it.
(c) He didn't understand the advice.
(d) He followed some advice, but not all of it.

4. When the son in "If You Were a Horse" asks his father why he says the statement about a horse to him, what does the father reply?
(a) Sometimes it is necessary to trade horses.
(b) Sometimes it is necessary to set a horse free.
(c) Sometimes it is necessary to kill a horse.
(d) Sometimes it is necessary to have a new hobby.

5. In "If You Were a Horse," when the son asks his father if he hates him, what does the father reply?
(a) He is afraid of him.
(b) He is neutral about him.
(c) He does hate him.
(d) He wishes he were different.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Assad stay in Basra?

2. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," what makes the narrator understand what the father wanted to do?

3. Why is the son afraid that his father is dead in "If You Were a Horse"?

4. How much does Marwan have to pay to go to Kuwait, according to Abul Khaizarun's price?

5. Who does Abul Khaizarun introduce himself to first?

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