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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of a burly man wearing a red t-shirt with illegible script on it?
(a) Zair.
(b) Ithemba.
(c) Rashid.
(d) Abdusalam.

2. How long has Osarobo been in Europe?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 5 years.

3. In August, how many men gather in front of Berlin's Town Hall who decide to stop eating and drinking?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

4. How many miles have the refugees heard that the bus stop is from the place where the Senate wants to transfer them in Chapter 17?
(a) 3 miles.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) 3 1/2 miles.
(d) 2 1/2 miles.

5. When Richard goes to a meeting at the school in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, how long have some refugees been occupying the school?
(a) 11 months.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. How tall is the fountain that has terraces arranged like a staircase?

2. Where do the first male refugees Richard is introduced to come from?

3. In Chapter 17, where does a security guard think the refugees may be transferred?

4. What languages do the men speak who gather in front of Berlin's Town Hall?

5. How old was Richard when his family left Silesia and resettled in Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Awad's story?

2. Why does Richard not return to speak to the refugees on Thursday in Chapter 14?

3. How does Richard spend the next two weeks in Chapter 5?

4. What is Eid Mubarak and how is it celebrated?

5. Why do some Black men gather in front of Berlin's Town Hall in late August?

6. Who teaches German to the refugees housed at the old nursing home?

7. Why is no one at the lake that Richard can see from the desk in his home office?

8. How did Sylvia become unemployed?

9. What happened the last time Rashid celebrated Eid Muharak?

10. What did Richard used to sell as a child, and why?

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