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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the falcon do after finding an object of interest?
(a) He stays perched on the gazelle.
(b) He eats too much.
(c) He refuses to eat.
(d) He flies around all day.

2. What does Suhail suddenly do after he puts his arm in the grave?
(a) Cries.
(b) Laughs.
(c) Chokes.
(d) Screams.

3. How does Nabil's friend feel when he meets him?
(a) Happy.
(b) Careless.
(c) Excited.
(d) Afraid.

4. In "The Falcon," who does not bother remembering the engineers' names?
(a) Abdallah.
(b) Jadaan.
(c) Nar.
(d) Mubarak.

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

6. Who is Nabil going to fulfill his task with?
(a) Selim.
(b) Suhail.
(c) His father.
(d) His sister.

7. What does Mubarak ask Abdallah?
(a) To give him a raise.
(b) To give him an advance.
(c) To hire his friend.
(d) To write a complaint for him.

8. How is Suhail injured?
(a) He is blinded.
(b) He is bruised.
(c) He loses his hand.
(d) He cuts his hand.

9. 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.

10. What happens to Suhail at the end of the story?
(a) He becomes a doctor.
(b) He dies.
(c) He is declared insane.
(d) He becomes a lawyer.

11. In "A Hand in the Grave," who offers to give up the scheme?
(a) Nabil.
(b) The father.
(c) Suhail.
(d) The sister.

12. What does Jadaan refuse to do?
(a) Buy lunch.
(b) Talk to his co-workers.
(c) Clean the bathrooms.
(d) Guard.

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

14. Where did Umm Saad used to live?
(a) With the narrator's family.
(b) With a neighbor.
(c) In her own house.
(d) With her father.

15. What is Nabil's father doing when he wakes up?
(a) Eating.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Reading.
(d) Praying.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Umm Saad's cousin respond to the idea Umm Saad has of doing something for her son?

2. What does the falcon find?

3. What kind of woman is Umm Saad?

4. How does Mubarak feel around Jadaan?

5. What does Umm Saad wonder about the commander?

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