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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. In Chapter 36, who cuts the wire for the alarm system?

2. How long did Richard take piano lessons as a child before he could listen to himself and know he was playing music?

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

4. What was Rashid's bank account number?

5. When the refugees lived in tents on Oranienplatz, how many toiles were available for 476 people after the sanitation trailer was attacked?

Short Essay Questions

1. What dreams did the thin man with the broom have and how did they seem to have a basis in reality?

2. What does Richard by Osarobo for Christmas, and how does Richard think it might be useful?

3. How do the refugees use their phones?

4. Why do staff members want to take blood samples from the refugees?

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

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

7. Why does Rufu pay for Richard's groceries?

8. What jobs does Rashid find for his people at Spandau and why?

9. What was life like for the thin man with the broom before he went to Kumasi?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood in Go, Went, Gone, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?

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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