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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Richard goes to a meeting at the school in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, how long have some refugees been occupying the school?

2. Over the next two weeks in Chapter 5, how many times does Richard go to physical therapy?

3. What did Richard sell when he was a child at the West Berlin train station Gesundbrunnen?

4. After how many years of being in uninterrupted asylum in Italy, may refugees look for work in Germany?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Awad's story?

2. What habit did Richard and his wife get into after the fall of the Wall?

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

4. What is Richard's morning routine?

5. How did Sylvia become unemployed?

6. What story is told about a construction worker who fell from a 365-meter tower for a fountain when it was being built?

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

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

9. Why does Awad know he will never forget Oranineplatz and will always revere its memory?

10. What does the boy Richard calls Apollo tell Richard about himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Richard has a comfortable life, and he does not have to worry about shelter or food. The refugees do not have permanent housing and often struggle to survive. How would you describe the economic disparity between Richard’s life and the lives of the refugees, and how it affects the refugees' day-to-day lives?

Essay Topic 2

Richard experiences a shift in his perspective and how he views the world as he gets to know the refugees. What does he mean when he is reminded by his visits with the refugees, "that one person's vantage point is just as valid as another's, and in seeing, there is no right, no wrong" (55).

Essay Topic 3

When Richard goes to speak with the refugees, he is curious and wants something to do. As he spends time with them, he becomes an active participant in their lives. How does Richard become an active participant in the refugees’ lives?

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