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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 do Nadia and Saeed use to build a shelter in Chapter 10?

2. In Chapter 7, what does an animal pull from the garbage?

3. What injury does Nadia have treated at the end of Chapter 6?

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

5. In Chapter 7, how many people end up living in the building where Nadia and Saeed stay?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, where does Saeed begin spending time and why?

2. At the end of Chapter 9, why does Nadia suggest that she and Saeed move to Marin near San Francisco?

3. When did Saeed begin attending the weekly communal prayer with his father, and what was the experience like for him?

4. What is Saeed's foreman like in Chapter 9?

5. What happens in Venice in Chapter 6?

6. At the end of Chapter 8, why do Saeed, Nadia, and their neighbors celebrate?

7. At the beginning of Chapter 8, where is electricity still to be found?

8. What do Saeed and Nadia find when they go to the rendezvous point in Chapter 6?

9. In Chapter 9, what disasters are reported?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The mood in the novel changes as war encroaches on the city, and Nadia and Saeed have to leave their city. What is the mood of the novel during the scenes in the city? How does the mood change as Nadia and Saeed move? What is the overall mood of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Conditions change in the city when war comes. How does war affect the city? How does the war affect society and the people who live in the city?

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