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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. How many of the refugees who came on a boat with Rashid and Zair drowned?

2. At what university did Richard teach?

3. Where is the young woman from who teaches the refugees German?

4. In Chapter 8, how long does Richard sit on a bench in the park and watch the refugees?

5. After the fall of the Wall, when would Richard and his wife walk in one of Kreuzberg's Western districts?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How old was Richard when his family left Silesia and resettled in Germany, and how was he separated and then reunited with his family?

3. How did Sylvia become unemployed?

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

5. What is Awad's story?

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

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

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

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

10. Why are the refugees upset when it is proposed that they be moved to a facility about five miles outside Buckow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The refugees vacillate between hope and hopelessness in Go, Went, Gone. Why do they vacillate between hope and hopelessness?

Essay Topic 3

The Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany from 1961 to 1989. Why is the Wall and its fall significant to Richard?

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