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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. Where does a door open in Chapter 8 for a woman who has a daughter at the House of the Children?

2. Where do Nadia and Saeed emerge in Chapter 7?

3. At the end of Chapter 9, where does Nadia suggest she and Saeed go?

4. What are migrants promised if they work in Chapter 9?

5. In Chapter 6, what do Nadia and Saeed trade one of their smaller backpacks for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when an accountant in Kentish Town finds a door in Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 10, what is the place of worship like that Saeed attends?

3. In Chapter 7, what happens when a housekeeper arrives to work at the house where Nadia and Saeed are staying?

4. In Chapter 9, what at Nadia and Saeed working toward?

5. What type of room do Nadia and Saeed claim for themselves in Chapter 7 and why?

6. How do Nadia and Saeed set up living quarters in Marin in Chapter 10?

7. In Chapter 7 when it is dark, who begin to emerge from the upstairs room where Nadia and Saeed emerged?

8. What happens in Venice in Chapter 6?

9. What is known about the old woman in Palo Alto in Chapter 10?

10. What is the native situation in Marin in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the militants first arrive, Saeed’s family’s apartment is a safe place from the violence of the streets. How does the violence begin to affect the sanctity of the apartment? How does the death of Saeed’s mother transform their place from sanctuary to place of danger? What does the change of the apartment from sanctuary to place of danger reveal about war and safe places?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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