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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Umm Saad move to?
(a) The city.
(b) The country.
(c) The camps.
(d) Another country.

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

5. What is one of Jadaan's responsibilities?
(a) To manage the others.
(b) To clean the bathrooms.
(c) To engineer.
(d) To buy lunch.

6. What does the falcon find?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A dog.
(c) A gazelle.
(d) A cat.

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

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

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

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

11. Who is Umm Saad's favorite child?
(a) Saad.
(b) Nadia.
(c) Selim.
(d) Nabil.

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

13. What does Abdallah ask Jadaan for advice about?
(a) Women.
(b) Work.
(c) Hunting gazelles.
(d) Parenting.

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

15. What does Nabil pack in his bag?
(a) A magnifying glass.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) A shovel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Umm Saad say about children?

2. What happens to Suhail at the end of the story?

3. Who offers to do the task alone first in "A Hand in the Grave"?

4. What does the father call Nabil?

5. Why does Umm Saad feel the way she does about her cousin's statement?

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