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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Jadaan and Mubarak's jobs?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Cashiers.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Guards.

2. What is Umm Saad resolved to do?
(a) Support her son.
(b) Join the war effort.
(c) Disown her son.
(d) Disown her other two kids.

3. What year in school are Suhail and Nabil?
(a) First year.
(b) Third year.
(c) Fourth year.
(d) Second year.

4. How does Jadaan feel about Mubarak?
(a) He trusts him.
(b) He despises him.
(c) He is ashamed of him.
(d) He likes him.

5. In "The Falcon," where does the narrator work?
(a) Restaurant.
(b) Store.
(c) New Construction Company.
(d) University.

6. What does Umm Saad debate about doing for her son?
(a) Visiting him.
(b) Disowning him.
(c) Sending him food.
(d) Sending him money.

7. What does Nabil end up studying?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Biology.
(c) Physics.
(d) Law.

8. What does Umm Saad tell her cousin to tell the commander?
(a) To let Saad do what he wants.
(b) To be tough on Saad.
(c) To take care of Saad.
(d) To let Saad come home.

9. How does Umm Saad's cousin respond to the idea Umm Saad has of doing something for her son?
(a) He says soldiers always need their mothers.
(b) He says that she should follow through with her idea.
(c) He says that she should come up with another idea.
(d) He says that soldiers have no need for mothers.

10. How does Jadaan respond to Abdallah's request for advice?
(a) He tells him to use a gun.
(b) He tells him to use a rope.
(c) He tells him to use a car.
(d) He tells him to leave the gazelles alone.

11. What does the father note, concerning Nabil?
(a) That Nabil looks refreshed.
(b) That Nabil looks tired.
(c) That Nabil looks high on drugs.
(d) That Nabil looks disheveled.

12. What do Saad and his companions want to do immediately?
(a) Get married.
(b) Go to war.
(c) Go to university.
(d) Go home.

13. When Nabil's father asks him why he is tired, what does Nabil reply with?
(a) He was out all night.
(b) Someone woke him up too early.
(c) He is sick.
(d) A list of medical possibilities.

14. When does Nabil wake up in "A Hand in the Grave"?
(a) In the afternoon.
(b) At dusk.
(c) In the middle of the night.
(d) Early.

15. When did Jadaan fall in love?
(a) When he was a child.
(b) When he was in school.
(c) When he was working as a guard.
(d) When he was hunting gazelles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Umm Saad say the commander should do?

2. Where does Umm Saad move to?

3. What does Jadaan say about falcons and death?

4. What would Umm Saad do without her two other children?

5. Where did Umm Saad used to live?

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