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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: The Mind, “Four Minutes” - “Jameelah’s Story”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Binnaz began to have one miscarriage after another, the family elders reminded Haroun that the Qur'an says a man can have how many wives?
(a) 11.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. Leilia has a "sinking feeling" (11) when she realizes that which event has just occurred?
(a) Her purse has been stolen.
(b) Her friends have left her alone.
(c) Her heart has ceased to beat.
(d) Her mother has died.

3. What substance did the midwife use in hopes of forcing Leila to make a sound?
(a) Ice.
(b) Mustard.
(c) Salt.
(d) Rice.

4. To whom is the epigraph of the novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World attributed?
(a) Marie Curie.
(b) Louis Pasteur.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Albert Einstein.

5. Uncle groomed and sexually abused Leila for the first time when the whole family went for a holiday next to what sea?
(a) The Mediterranean Sea.
(b) The Adriatic Sea.
(c) The Baltic Sea.
(d) The Aegean Sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the chapter entitled "Three Minutes," what flavor does Leila remember three minutes after her heart has stopped that takes her back to September of 1967?

2. What occupation did Sinan's father hold at the time of his death?

3. How many adolescent boys are in the group who first finds Leila's body?

4. After young Sinan's father died, he harbored "a nagging suspicion that, no matter how hard he tried and how much he changed, he would always" (77) commit what action toward his mother?

5. How many of his own siblings did Haroun raise after their parents died in a car accident?

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