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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Lester's friend Doug ask him?
(a) Do you need some help from me?
(b) Are you in any trouble?
(c) Are you going home to your wife?
(d) Are you real clear on what you're doing?

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

3. What does Lester pray for while he waits in jail?
(a) Kathy's safety.
(b) A way out of all the trouble.
(c) Esmail's recovery.
(d) His wife's forgiveness.

4. Why is Kathy unable to speak when she wakes up in the hospital?
(a) She's suffering from traumatic stress.
(b) Her lawyer has advised her not to talk.
(c) Her throat was damaged when Behrani choked her.
(d) She damaged her throat from too much smoking.

5. What order of Lester's does Behrani refuse to obey when they park in the county parking garage?
(a) To get paperwork from the county.
(b) To drive to the county office.
(c) To drive to the police station.
(d) To leave Esmail with Lester and go to the county office.

6. What does Kathy worry about as she thinks of her own death?
(a) Who will tell her mother?
(b) How will Frank get the Bonneville?
(c) Who will clean for her clients?
(d) Who will explain to Lester?

7. What does the deputy guarding Kathy tell her is likely to happen to Lester?
(a) "They'll throw him to the hounds."
(b) "They'll rally around him."
(c) "They'll see that his sentence is suspended."
(d) "They'll see that his sentence is light."

8. Why does Behrani frighten the people on the street as he runs to the hospital?
(a) He is screaming.
(b) He is covered with blood.
(c) He is raving.
(d) He is running and appears insane.

9. What does Kathy think her mother will do when she finds out what has happened?
(a) Demand that she come home.
(b) Rush to California to help her.
(c) Get her into a rehab clinic.
(d) Curse her for good.

10. What does Deputy Gleason come to tell Lester when he sees him on the street with Behrani and Esmail?
(a) That Lester's reputation is being damaged.
(b) That he hopes Lester will solve his marital problems.
(c) That he appreciates all that Lester taught him.
(d) That Lester is under arrest.

11. What does Esmail not know about Lester's gun?
(a) How to fire it.
(b) That it isn't loaded.
(c) That the safety is on.
(d) That it is loaded.

12. How does Lester get into the Behranis' house?
(a) He kicks out the window panes and opens the kitchen door.
(b) He pounds on the door until they answer.
(c) He rings the doorbell and waits.
(d) He opens the door and walks in.

13. Why does Kathy think the police will come looking for her now that she has returned to the house?
(a) She was driving drunk.
(b) She pointed a gun at the gas station attendant.
(c) She planned to commit arson.
(d) She purchased illegal drugs.

14. What does Behrani instruct Soraya to do with the house?
(a) Preserve it to return it to Kathy.
(b) Flee from it because it is cursed.
(c) Burn it.
(d) Live there if she likes, or sell it for no less than a hundred thousand.

15. What does Behrani believe he must do to save his son's life?
(a) Give everything to Kathy.
(b) Leave the United States.
(c) Repay Lester by killing him.
(d) Sacrifice his own life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kathy do to try to help Nadereh while she sleeps?

2. Why does Esmail say they are behaving like thugs?

3. How does looking at Soraya's picture make Kathy feel?

4. How has Esmail reacted to Lester's breaking into their home and holding them at gunpoint?

5. What does Lester think Esmail is trying to do when he sees the window is open?

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