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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 type of restaurant do Saeed and Nadia meet at in Chapter 2?

2. At the end of Chapter 3, what does the government turn off?

3. What type of advertising does Saeed's employer specialize in?

4. What type of beard does Saeed have?

5. What weapons does the brave man have in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, who does Saeed's mother think she sees firing a machine gun?

2. Why does Saeed's father not wish to go with Nadia and Saeed when they leave?

3. What does Nadia call Saeed's father in Chapter 5 and why?

4. What does Nadia do with the money she withdraws from her bank in Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 2, what is the refugee situation?

6. In Chapter 1, when Saeed asks Nadia to coffee, how much fighting has the city seen where they live?

7. In Chapter 4, how does Saeed try to find Nadia when the phones are shut off?

8. How does Nadia say goodbye to the man she has been seeing in Chapter 2?

9. In Chapter 4, what does Nadia see the two times she passes her family's home in Chapter 4?

10. How is the place described where Saeed lives with his parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nadia has a record player and enjoys listening to music when she lives in the city. How are individuals expected to conform in the city? How does the record player symbolize Nadia’s individuality and independence? How does the record player allow Nadia to make connections and overcome the isolation and loneliness that she often feels in the city?

Essay Topic 2

Nadia and Saeed both have dreams in Chapter 9. What are their dreams? What do these dreams reveal about Nadia and Saeed’s focus on the past and present? What do the dreams reveal about the comfort level that Nadia and Saeed have in their new lives and how they face the future?

Essay Topic 3

Nadia and Saeed find themselves in a huge, empty mansion when they go through a door in Greece. What does the mansion reveal about the essentials and inessentials of life? What does the mansion symbolize?

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