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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kathy help Nadereh when she first realizes she is in pain?
(a) She calls the doctor and picks up her prescription.
(b) She opens her medicine bottle and closes the shade.
(c) She fixes her a meal and puts on her music.
(d) She drives her to the emergency room.

2. How does Alvarez punish Lester's threatening the Behranis?
(a) An oral reprimand.
(b) Six months' suspension.
(c) Formal charges.
(d) One year's suspension.

3. What does Behrani promise to do if they are released from the bathroom?
(a) They will let Kathy stay with them.
(b) They will sell the house.
(c) They will report what has happened.
(d) They will leave the country.

4. Why does Lester think the Behranis have hurt Kathy as he watches through the window?
(a) She is in an ambulance.
(b) She is barely conscious on the bed.
(c) She is unconscious on the floor.
(d) She is screaming for help.

5. Why is Nadereh angry that her husband was a high officer in the shah's army?
(a) Because now their lives feel impoverished.
(b) Because it has made him cruel to his family.
(c) Because their names are on an Iranian death list.
(d) Because it has made him proud.

6. What does Alvarez explain to Behrani after Esmail has been shot?
(a) His legal recourse against Lester.
(b) That the department regrets their error.
(c) That he will give Behrani a ride to the hospital.
(d) How serious Esmail's wound is.

7. What does Nadereh advise her husband to do while Lester is holding them hostage?
(a) Try to overpower him.
(b) Threaten him with full disclosure of what he has done.
(c) Invite Lester to eat.
(d) Call the police.

8. What does Lester instruct Kathy to think about while he is gone to the county offices with Esmail and Behrani?
(a) What to tell his boss.
(b) Some way out of this mess.
(c) What to do with all that money.
(d) Someplace sunny they could go.

9. How does Nadereh try to reassure Esmail regarding the situation with Lester while they are locked in the bathroom?
(a) By telling him that his father outranks Lester.
(b) By tell ing him that his father is smarter than Lester.
(c) By telling him that his father is stronger than Lester.
(d) By telling him that his father is tougher than Lester.

10. Why is Nadereh angry with Behrani after he forces Kathy to leave?
(a) He refuses to take her home to Iran.
(b) He doesn't make enough money.
(c) She hates the widow's walk.
(d) He has lied to her.

11. What does Lester call the Whore Twenty-Four?
(a) Kathy.
(b) His car.
(c) The policeman's sense of always being on duty.
(d) His wife.

12. What does Lester try to convince Kathy to do now that they have held the Behrani family overnight?
(a) Demand that the county pay full market value for the house.
(b) Turn herself in to the police.
(c) Kidnap his children and run away with him.
(d) Take the money from the county and leave with him.

13. How does Behrani feel when he has put Kathy to bed?
(a) Relieved that she can't hurt them more.
(b) Disgusted at her debauched behavior.
(c) Joyful at having saved a life.
(d) Angry that she has trespassed again.

14. What does Behrani feel for Kathy when he finds her sleeping in the car?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Disgust.
(c) Pity.
(d) Fury.

15. What does Kathy plan to do now that she has parked in the driveway of the house?
(a) She will burn down the house.
(b) She will commit suicide.
(c) She has no plan.
(d) She will shoot the Behrani family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kathy do to make things better at the house while she waits for Lester?

2. What does Lester pray for while he waits in jail?

3. How does Behrani say he feels about his menial job on bad days?

4. Who does Lester call with the two phone calls he is permitted to make?

5. Why does Lester believe he will have to tell Alvarez the truth?

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