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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 is Jeshauna's father's name?

2. How does Darisse feel when Claude does not show up at the bar to meet her in Chapter 3?

3. What instrument does Silas play?

4. What does Darisse do the morning after Claude failed to show up at the bar in Chapter 3?

5. Why does Kiki not like Reyna's new tattoo in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Teddy have financial problems following Claude's crashing into his truck?

2. What does Reyna think might be in her apartment somewhere, and what does she plan to do with it if she finds it?

3. How does Darisse meet SIlas, the man she ends up dating after she realizes Claude has disappeared?

4. How does Kiki's attitude toward Reyna change after Hurricane Sandy?

5. Why do Boyd and his friends ask Reyna to drive one of the runs to Virginia to smuggle cigarettes?

6. What was Reyna's real reason for wanting Kiki to stay with her and Oliver during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy?

7. What does Kiki end up doing for a living after her own shop fails, and how does her family feel about it?

8. In the midst of Hurricane Sandy, what does Reyna's father call her and ask her to do?

9. Why does Kiki's Turkish boyfriend, who later becomes her husband, stop selling carpets?

10. What does Kiki eventually tell her family about why her marriage ended and why she was coming home from Turkey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Reyna want to know so much about Kiki's history, particularly about Kiki's marriage to Osman? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

What does Kiki's friend Pat, an American she met while in Istanbul who had children and decided to stay living there for decades, symbolize for Kiki? Why do you think the two women managed to stay friends for decades? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing why Kiki is so excited when the three Germans - Dieter, Bruno, and Steffi - show up on Osman's family's farm in Turkey in 1977. Why do you think she ultimately decided not to take them up on their offer to her to travel with them?

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