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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Amir guess Isaac has been reading, in order to get his knowledge of Islam?
(a) Rumi.
(b) Hafiz.
(c) Mahmoud Darwish.
(d) Orhan Pamuk.

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

4. Why does Amir say he changed his name?
(a) Identity theft.
(b) Immigration to the U.S.
(c) His first marriage.
(d) Entering practice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the playwright say this thing breaking at the beginning of Scene Three makes Amir feel?

2. Where does Amir say he saw a write-up of Emily’s museum show?

3. What crime does Amir say the Quran condones?

4. Who does Amir call to look for help for Abe in Scene Four?

5. How is Abe’s wardrobe different when he enters in Scene Four than it was when he entered in Scene One?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Amir give Abe about how he expresses his political views, and what is Abe’s response?

2. What has happened in the intervening time between Scenes 3 and 4?

3. What is the irony in Isaac’s praise for Emily’s portrait of Amir?

4. What grounds has Akhtar left the audience, by the end of the play, for feeling that there is a path to virtue and integrity?

5. What is it that brings Abe and Emily back to Amir’s apartment?

6. What does Amir propose to Jory in Scene 3?

7. What historical circumstance complicates the question of Amir’s nationality?

8. What knife does Jory stick into Amir on her way out the door?

9. What happened at work that made Amir forget to get wine?

10. What does Emily mean when she says, in Scene 4, that her work was naïve?

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