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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. As they drove out of Mogadishu in Chapter 16, Amanda was deep in thought. What was she having happy thoughts about?
2. In Chapter 10, what was Kelly Barker's occupation?
3. In Chapter 10, what year did Nigel persuade Amanda to come to Australia?
4. In Chapter 19, what did Amanda's mother say the ransom was?
5. In Chapter 19, how far were Amanda and Nigel drive to a new house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Danakil Depression?
2. What did Amanda and Nigel's captors say when they left a voice mail on Amanda's father's phone?
3. After Amanda received her visa to travel to Afghanistan, why did she begin to have doubts about visiting there?
4. In Chapter 16, what did Amanda see after they passed a checkpoint and the car slowed again?
5. In Chapter 4, Amanda and Jamie had to learn some lessons quickly as they traveled. What lessons did they learn?
6. In Chapter 15, what did Amanda say that she wrote weekly?
7. How did Richard Engel, an NBC reporter, get his start?
8. In Chapter 9, who were the Afar who lived in a market village on the outskirts of a desert in Ethiopia?
9. What was Nigel's plan at the beginning of Chapter 10?
10. In Chapter 12, Amanda said, "It is an obvious fact that you can never look ahead with clarity at your own future or anyone else's." What did she mean by this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Amanda became suicidal. What gave Amanda hope so that she decided not to kill herself?
Essay Topic 2
Amanda had one house she called a House in the Sky. What was this house and how did it get her through her captivity, especially when she was in Dark House?
Essay Topic 3
Amanda was taken into the desert. Why was she taken into the desert and did her captors intend to execute her or just scare her?
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