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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps Anne with her 90-year-old mother when the Polish health-care aide goes to see her family over Christmas?
(a) Yaya.
(b) Ali.
(c) Awad.
(d) Khalil.

2. After talking to the staff taking blood, who does Richard notice going out?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Awad.
(c) Osarobo.
(d) Rashid.

3. How many days would it take Rashid to make a large metal gate for a driveway?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 3 days.

4. Where is Rufu from?
(a) Namibia.
(b) Rwanda.
(c) Ghana.
(d) Burkina Faso.

5. Where are Richard's parents buried?
(a) Invalidenfriedhof.
(b) Friedhof Grunewald-Forst.
(c) Berlin-Pankow.
(d) Dorotheenstadt.

6. How much does Karon think a property in Ghana would cost that would be big enough for his family to feed themselves?
(a) 2,000 to 3,000 euros.
(b) 3,000 to 4,000 euros.
(c) 1,000 to 1,200 euros.
(d) 1,500 to 2,000 euros.

7. What was the name of the hospital where Richard's mother died?
(a) Franziskus-Krankenhaus.
(b) Charite
(c) St. Hedwig.
(d) Park-Klinik.

8. What is the fine a refugees must pay if he dodges the fare on a bus, S-Bahn, or subway?
(a) 20 euros.
(b) 35 euros.
(c) 40 euros.
(d) 15 euros.

9. When the police are at Spandau to oversee 12 refugees leave, who comes running out of the building asking to be left in peace?
(a) Khalil.
(b) Ithemba.
(c) Abdusalam.
(d) Yussuf.

10. Of the men who take a German class at a community college, how many cannot read or write the Latin alphabet?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 17.
(d) 11.

11. When Rashid spends Christmas with Richard, how long has it been since his wife divorced him?
(a) A year.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 9 months.

12. When was Apollo born?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1991.

13. The Sunday before Advent, with what does Richard cover his parents' graves?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Roses.
(c) Spruce branches.
(d) Fir branches.

14. How many times have xenophobic Berliners set the information tent on fire that is still erected at Oranienplatz?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

15. How long ago is it believed that the ancestors of the Tuareg came from what is modern Syria?
(a) About 2,500 years.
(b) 1,8080 years.
(c) 2,900 years.
(d) More than 3,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it cost for an asylum application?

2. How many people did the man with the broom have to provide for after his father died?

3. Who has a single room in the new accommodations at Spandau?

4. What does Richard have to drink with the meal he shares with the refugees in Chapter 34?

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

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