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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through If You Were a Horse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the son in "If You Were a Horse" asks his father why he says the statement about a horse to him, what does the father reply?
(a) Sometimes it is necessary to set a horse free.
(b) Sometimes it is necessary to trade horses.
(c) Sometimes it is necessary to kill a horse.
(d) Sometimes it is necessary to have a new hobby.

2. In "If You Were a Horse," who killed the horse?
(a) The son.
(b) Abu Muhammad.
(c) The father.
(d) The wife.

3. What happens to Assad, Marwan, and Abu Qais at the end of "Men in the Sun"?
(a) They start a new life in Kuwait.
(b) They are very seriously injured, but survive.
(c) They go back home.
(d) They die in the water tank.

4. In "If You Were a Horse," what does this object that the son finds contain?
(a) Poems.
(b) His mother's diary.
(c) Prices and pedigrees of horses.
(d) Pictures.

5. Why does Abul Khaizarun smuggle men?
(a) To have workers.
(b) To genuinely help them.
(c) To make more money.
(d) All the above.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," where do the men stop on the way out of the town?

2. Where does Assad stay in Basra?

3. What does the proprietor insist to Assad about the smuggling?

4. In "If You Were a Horse," what does the son feel about his father?

5. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," what do the kids do when the father is set off?

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