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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. When Richard enters the area where the refugees are house for the first time, how many young men are sitting holding a cue, but not playing pool?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. How many days was Awad on the boat from Libya to Italy?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 7 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 5 days.

3. When the lights go off at the occupied school, what is stolen from a refugee?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Laptop.
(c) Money.
(d) Books.

4. After how many years of being in uninterrupted asylum in Italy, may refugees look for work in Germany?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

5. Where do the first male refugees Richard is introduced to come from?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Mali.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Ghana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of tea does Richard drink every morning?

2. How long has Osarobo been in Europe?

3. How many friends does Richard see every year at a party his neighbors, Detlef and Sylvia, host?

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

5. When did Richard find himself suddenly the citizen of a different country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the woman who teaches German classes to the refugees think it is difficult for them to learn the language?

2. What does Richard learn when he reads the document signed by the Berlin Senate and the Africans?

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

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

5. What does Richard notice as he is led through the building where the refugees are housed?

6. Why does Richard go to a former school in Kreuzberg?

7. What is Awad's story?

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

9. What happensw when the tents and shacks on the Oranienplatz are torn down?

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

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