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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emily send Amir out for, after calling him into the kitchen to get him to tone down his rhetoric?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Champagne.
(c) Bottled water.
(d) Wine.

2. How does the playwright say this thing breaking at the beginning of Scene Three makes Amir feel?
(a) On edge.
(b) Fierce.
(c) Violent.
(d) Soothed.

3. Who calls Amir just as Emily is trying to defuse a tense conversation about racial profiling in Scene Three?
(a) Steven.
(b) Mort.
(c) Tariq.
(d) Abe.

4. How do Emily and Isaac explain their kiss, when Jory and Amir come back?
(a) They say he was comforting her because she was upset.
(b) They jump apart and only mumble incoherent excuses.
(c) They confess to their affair.
(d) They insist that they were not even touching.

5. What reason does Jory give Amir for his failure to be promoted?
(a) Amir had offended Mort by declining his invitation for a weekend get-together..
(b) Jory told Mort and Steven about Amir’s drinking problem.
(c) Steven said he was a terrorist.
(d) Mort said that he was duplicitous.

6. How is Abe’s wardrobe different when he enters in Scene Four than it was when he entered in Scene One?
(a) More colorful.
(b) More Americanized.
(c) More neutral.
(d) More muted.

7. What is broken at the beginning of Scene Three?
(a) A bottle.
(b) A chair.
(c) A glass.
(d) A lamp.

8. In Scene Three, when discussing art, what does Emily say Islam is still connected to?
(a) Its roots in primitive religion.
(b) The earth.
(c) The divine.
(d) A less personal perspective.

9. What is Amir drinking in Scene Three, that he offers some to Isaac?
(a) Wine.
(b) Bourbon.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Beer.

10. How does Amir justify his feelings about 9/11?
(a) He says that anyone who has seen conditions in the Middle East will feel the same.
(b) He says his feelings are tribal.
(c) He says that justice is elemental.
(d) He says that power turns to corruption.

11. How is Amir acting toward Emily, as she is leaving?
(a) Distraught.
(b) Furious.
(c) Paranoid.
(d) Contrite.

12. What religion does Isaac say is similar to Islam?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Judaism.

13. How does Abe say that Muslims have been disgraced?
(a) Westerners have forced them to abandon their culture.
(b) Westerners have corrupted their political systems.
(c) Westerners have made it impossible to believe their religion.
(d) Westerners have stolen their natural resources.

14. In Scene Four, what does Abe say is the one thing he can count on with Amir?
(a) The he will not even be able to help himself.
(b) That he will turn his back on his people.
(c) That he will be there in the end.
(d) That he will only help at the last moment.

15. Who does Amir call to look for help for Abe in Scene Four?
(a) Mort.
(b) Ken.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Steven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the immediate cause that leads Amir to hit Emily?

2. What is the only world Amir say the Quran makes sense in?

3. In Scene Three, what does Amir say Steven was trying to ascertain?

4. What kind of offer is Jory entertaining from Credit Suisse?

5. What does Amir say Isaac is, before Emily finally draws Amir out of the dining room into the kitchen?

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