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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. What does the name "Nila" mean in English?

2. How are Timur and Idris related?

3. Where was Markos when he broke an elbow at an antinuclear protest?

4. Where did Pari attend college?

5. How long ago did Idris's father die, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Amra Ademovic and what is her relationship to Roshi?

2. What led up to Roshi's injuries?

3. How do Gholam and Adel first meet? What does Adel end up handing over to Gholam?

4. How does Nila address her poetry and the sources of her poetry in Chapter 6?

5. What litarary frame device is employed in Chapter 6? Why?

6. What exchange takes place between Timur and Nabi in Chapter 5? What does this say about each character?

7. How did Markos come to take his first photograph?

8. How are Timur and Idris similar? How are they different?

9. What does Roshi write in Idris's book in the end of Chapter 5? How does this affect him?

10. Where did Gholam grow up? Why did he and his father return?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting and historical context of the novel. What time span is covered in the narrative? What are the main settings of the story? How do politics and international relations impact the story?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the plot structure of And the Mountains Echoed. Where in the narrative does the exposition transition to rising action? Where does the climax take place? What information is revealed in the falling action and denouement?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of secrets in And the Mountains Echoed. What are examples of secrets that are exposed in the novel? What secrets remain hidden? How do the secrets in the narrative impact the characters and the plot?

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