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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Umm Saad say the commander should do?
(a) Take care of Saad.
(b) Send Saad home.
(c) Send Saad to war.
(d) Discipline Saad.

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

4. What does Umm Saad ask her cousin?
(a) Whether he would go retrieve her son.
(b) Whether he would take care of her other kids.
(c) Whether she should ask the commander to keep an eye on Saad.
(d) Whether she should move to the US.

5. What is the name of Jadaan's falcon?
(a) Nar.
(b) Abdallah.
(c) Mubarak.
(d) Ghazal.

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

7. What does the father respond to his daughter's offer in "A Hand in the Grave"?
(a) He does not like that book.
(b) He is not hungry.
(c) That he does not want to be poisoned.
(d) He would rather have something else.

8. How does Mubarak feel around Jadaan?
(a) Distrustful.
(b) Love.
(c) Angry.
(d) Ashamed.

9. In "The Falcon," where are the guards from?
(a) The desert.
(b) The US.
(c) The countryside.
(d) The city.

10. What does Nabil's answers to his father's question cause his father to feel?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Anger.
(c) Neutral feelings.
(d) Pride.

11. What would Umm Saad do without her two other children?
(a) Follow Saad.
(b) Work.
(c) Move to another country.
(d) Have fun.

12. What happens to the falcon after a week?
(a) He is killed.
(b) He dies.
(c) He eats again.
(d) He flies away forever.

13. Why does Umm Saad feel the way she does concerning her son?
(a) She is unhappy with her family.
(b) She is angry for him leaving.
(c) She is worried he will come back.
(d) She is worried about him.

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

15. What background are the guards of, in "The Falcon"?
(a) Average class background.
(b) City background.
(c) High class background.
(d) Of Bedouin background.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nabil end up studying?

3. Where did Umm Saad used to live?

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

5. What does Nabil say he woke up for?

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