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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. Who did Amanda write a weekly column for in Chapter 15?
2. Before the jihad, what had Ahmed and Adam worked as?
3. What did Amanda do in Chapter 6 when a rickshaw driver tried to take her into the country?
4. What was the name of Nigel's wife?
5. Why couldn't Amanda get a hotel in Bangladesh in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Amanda tell her captors that she wanted to become Muslim?
2. In Chapter 6, why did Amanda have difficulty getting a room in Bangaldesh, and how did she finally get a room?
3. Who was Nigel Brennan, and how did Amanda meet him?
4. Amanda went from being a child with very little money to an adult with more money than she had ever seen. How did Amanda get this money? What troubles came with having this much money?
5. In Chapter 19, what was Amanda's strategy to try to get the kidnappers to let her and Nigel go?
6. In Chapter 9, who were the Afar who lived in a market village on the outskirts of a desert in Ethiopia?
7. When Amanda met staff from National Geographic, what questions did she ask and how did the a photographerr respond?
8. What did Amanda and Nigel's captors say when they left a voice mail on Amanda's father's phone?
9. Describe Amanda's childhood. How did Amanda view the world even as a small child?
10. How are Muslim prayers performed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Amanda and Nigel were put in separate rooms, Amanda devised ways to communicate. What ways did they devise to communicate together when they were never together physically?
Essay Topic 2
Amanda and Nigel received some new reading material in a care package. Why was it important to get new reading materials and how did it encourage them?
Essay Topic 3
Amanda and Nigel were separated and put in different rooms. Why did being alone after they were separated bother Amanda and how did she try to cope?
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