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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. In Chapter 2, whose grave do Nadia and Saeed visit?

2. How long after his parents' marriage was Saeed born?

3. In Chapter 1, what does Saeed pick up for dinner after work?

4. Where does Nadia have a beauty mark?

5. What type of weapon does the second man have who enters through a black door and sees the brave man?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what things is Nadia able to get from her apartment?

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

3. In Chapter 1, hat is the topic of conversation when Saeed and Nadia first have coffee?

4. In Chapter 4, how does Nadia spend her lunch hours?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Having an influx of people go through doors and migrate around the world, puts a strain on resources in the places where they go. What is revealed about migration through Nadia and Saeed’s experiences? How do various places deal with the migrant crisis?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The experiences that Nadia and Saeed have together changes their relationship. How does their relationship grow and change in the city? What strain is put upon their relationship in the refugee camps? How does their relationship change through their experiences in the book?

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