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

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

3. When Rashid and his children were on the boats, how many days did they have nothing to eat or drink?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

5. How many euros are the refugees given for a transit pass?
(a) 76.
(b) 57.
(c) 49.
(d) 62.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 38, how long has Rashid been trying to find Khalil's parents on Feacebook?

2. What does it cost for an asylum application?

3. How much does Karon think a property in Ghana would cost that would be big enough for his family to feed themselves?

4. How old is Peter the archaeologist's girlfriend?

5. How many men in an all-male sextet that sang "A Friend, A Good Friend" in 1930 fled to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Richard give Anne, the photographer, Ali's contact information?

2. Why is Karon Anubo not able to buy a transit pass in December?

3. What police presence is at Spandau when 12 men are to be moved?

4. Where is it thought that the ancestors of the Tuareg came from?

5. What medical condition does Rashid have, and why has he not been treated for it?

6. How did Rashid get sent on a boat with his children?

7. Who are the staff at the old nursing home where the refugees are housed?

8. Why does it seem like Richard can smell freshly washed clothes when hears Bach's Inventions on the radio?

9. What is the room like where Richard has a piano, and how has the room been used over the years?

10. What happened to Rashid's wife?

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