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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Scene Three, what does Amir say Steven was trying to ascertain?
(a) Whether Amir was a loyal American.
(b) Whether Amir would have known Imam Fareed from south Asia.
(c) Whether Amir had likely ties to terrorists.
(d) Whether Amir had misrepresented himself to the firm.

2. How does Emily say the Quran sees humanity?
(a) As fallen divinity waiting to be redeemed.
(b) As stubborn and self-interested.
(c) As needing loving guidance.
(d) As clans of people with various gods.

3. What is Amir’s approach to airline security?
(a) He wears his most expensive clothes.
(b) He makes eye contact and reassuring glances at security.
(c) He does not fly.
(d) He offers himself to be searched.

4. What does Amir say he understands people feeling about Muslims who kill and die for their faith?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Horror.
(c) Envy.
(d) Pride.

5. What is Jory’s race?
(a) Latina.
(b) Caucasian.
(c) African-American.
(d) Asian-American.

6. How does the playwright describe the state of Amir’s soul?
(a) Wounded.
(b) Beaten.
(c) Crippled.
(d) Sick and weak.

7. What is the only world Amir say the Quran makes sense in?
(a) The seventh-century desert.
(b) The slums.
(c) The modern city.
(d) The worker’s paradise of the future.

8. In Scene Three, what does Amir say the Prophet said about paintings?
(a) Never to enter a house with paintings.
(b) To avoid them except in temples.
(c) Not to make them or look at them.
(d) To make them carry the light of God.

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

10. In Scene Three, what does Isaac say Amir is full of?
(a) Self-loathing.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Deceptions.
(d) Righteousness.

11. What does Jory say she remembers of the Quran, from reading it in college?
(a) Its strictness.
(b) Its anger.
(c) Its violence.
(d) Its love.

12. Where does Amir say he saw a write-up of Emily’s museum show?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Artnews magazine.
(c) The New York Post.
(d) The New York Times.

13. How does Isaac characterize Amir’s approach to airline security?
(a) Compliance.
(b) Resistance.
(c) Defiance.
(d) Avoidance.

14. What does Amir say about Emily approaching him the way she does in Scene Three?
(a) That he is still too on edge from work.
(b) That he sees how she loves him.
(c) That it does not help.
(d) That it is just a matter of time till he feels better.

15. What does Amir say Isaac is, before Emily finally draws Amir out of the dining room into the kitchen?
(a) A Nazi.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Naïve.
(d) Romantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Scene Four, what does Abe say is the one thing he can count on with Amir?

2. When does Emily say western art turned away from things that are bigger than themselves, to focus on individualism?

3. Where does Amir say his parents were born?

4. What is Amir drinking in Scene Three, that he offers some to Isaac?

5. How does Abe say that Muslims have been disgraced?

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