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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 10, how long has it been since Nadia and Saeed smoked weed together?

2. What do Saeed and Nadia use for a sofa in Chapter 10?

3. In Chapter 6, where does the young woman who plans to visit the migrants at the zoo work?

4. In Chapter 7 after the police leave, what language does someone sing in during the night?

5. What is served for dinner in Chapter 8 when a woman comes for her daughter at the House of the Children?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many women who wear robes like the ones that Nadia wears are religious women who devote time to prayer. Is Nadia a religious person? Why does Nadia wear her robe? How does the robe symbolize Nadia’s desire to protect herself? What does the way that she continues to wear the robe reveal about Nadia and her self-protective instincts?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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