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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter from Gaza.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does the family stay in the house in Sidon?
(a) Three nights.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Three hours.
(d) Four nights.

2. Who did Jadaan used to pay to fulfill his responsibility?
(a) Abdallah's servant.
(b) Abdallah.
(c) His wife.
(d) Mubarak.

3. In "Letter from Gaza," what specific place did the narrator and his friend grow up in?
(a) Acre.
(b) Sidon.
(c) Ras Naquora.
(d) Shajiya quarter.

4. What does Umm Saad say about children?
(a) They are slavery.
(b) They are getting high marks in school.
(c) They are hopeless.
(d) They are her only hope.

5. 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 have a new hobby.
(b) Sometimes it is necessary to kill a horse.
(c) Sometimes it is necessary to trade horses.
(d) Sometimes it is necessary to set a horse free.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Barq's unique trait predict, according to superstition?

2. What is one of Jadaan's responsibilities?

3. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," what happens to the narrator and his family?

4. What does Umm Saad ask her cousin?

5. In "A Hand in the Grave," who offers to give up the scheme?

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