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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 4, when is it said that the class that Saeed and Nadia were taking was finished?

2. How many employees does Saeed's employer have in Chapter 1?

3. What does Nadia serve when people pay their condolences to Saeed and his father in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 5, who emerges from an interior service door?

5. In Chapter 3, what type of cancer did the ex-Navy man's brother have?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what happens to Saeed's mother?

2. In Chapter 3, what is said about the city getting telephone after independence?

3. What is said about Nadia and school at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. In Chapter 5, why is Saeed grateful that Nadia is with him and his father?

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

6. Why is Saeed surprised when he sees Nadia's mode of transportation in Chapter 1?

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

8. Where would Nadia and Saeed like to travel and why?

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

10. In Chapter 3 after the assault on the stock exchange, how do the militants change their strategy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Migrants use special doors to leave their homelands and travel. What do migrants hope to find when they go through the doors? How do the doors symbolize both the ability to escape and the fear of moving somewhere else?

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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