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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. What fountain did Richard like to sit at the edge of between lectures when he was a student in the 1960s?

2. What type of sandwiches does Richard make for dinner in Chapter 3?

3. What can Richard see from his desk?

4. What is Richard wearing in Chapter 1?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Richard's situation at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. What is Richard's morning routine?

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

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

7. Years ago, how did Richard deal with the discovery that his lover was cheating on him?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Osarobo has a strong faith in God. Richard does not believe in God. What do their beliefs reveal about how people cope with the challenges of trauma and uncertainty?

Essay Topic 2

Richard has viewed the world through an Eurocentric lens. What is a Eurocentric lens, and how does his understanding of the world transform in Go, Went, Gone and why?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place where a story happens. Where does Go, Went, Gone take place? How do characters feel about the place and why?

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