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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richard pay Tristan to rake leaves for two hours?
(a) 30 euros.
(b) 40 euros.
(c) 20 euros.
(d) 50 euros.

2. When Richard starts working with the advanced refugee students taking German, how many students does he teach?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

3. Where are Detlef and Sylvia spending Christmas?
(a) Stuttgart.
(b) HamBurg.
(c) Potsdam.
(d) Munich.

4. By the time Richard speaks to a man with a broom, how long has the advent wreath been standing on his living room table?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 10 months.

5. What instrument did Richard's wife, Cristel, play?
(a) Cello.
(b) Harp.
(c) Viola.
(d) Violin.

6. Where will men be taking a language course at a community college after the Egyptian teacher leaves?
(a) Kreuzberg.
(b) Admiralbrucke.
(c) Schonberg.
(d) Rudolfkiez.

7. When did Eugen Levine refer to himself and his comrades as "dead men on holiday" (167)?
(a) 55 years ago.
(b) About 75 years ago.
(c) 210 years ago.
(d) Approximately 100 years ago.

8. Who has a single room in the new accommodations at Spandau?
(a) Rashid.
(b) Ithemba.
(c) Osarobo.
(d) Zair.

9. On the day residents of Spandau have to leave, when does a senator say that Rashid was supposed to have had a surgery for a severe cardiac condition?
(a) 5 weeks ago.
(b) 3 months ago.
(c) 6 months ago.
(d) 11 weeks ago.

10. How old is Karon's brother who cut himself with a cutlass while working in the field?
(a) 17.
(b) 22.
(c) 20.
(d) 13.

11. What country does Richard say has more uranium than anywhere else in the world?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Namibia.
(c) Niger.
(d) Ghana.

12. What does Richard have to drink with the meal he shares with the refugees in Chapter 34?
(a) Almond milk.
(b) Fruit juice.
(c) Water.
(d) Date milk.

13. How long has Awad been awake in Chapter 27?
(a) Since midnight.
(b) Since 2 a.m.
(c) Since 2:30 a.m.
(d) Since 3:30 a.m.

14. When did the man with the broom pay a man to smuggle him to to Libya?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2009.
(d) 2008.

15. What day of the week does Osarobo visit Richard?
(a) Monday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Tuesday.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Apollo born?

2. In the 1960s, into how many countries did the French divide the reigion the Tuareg traditionally inhabited?

3. How long after death was the memorial ceremony for the father of the man with the broom?

4. When the refugees lived in tents on Oranienplatz, how many toiles were available for 476 people after the sanitation trailer was attacked?

5. The Sunday before Advent, with what does Richard cover his parents' graves?

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