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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," why does the father send the children to do a particular task every morning?
(a) To get them an education.
(b) So the house can be clean.
(c) To distract them from their hunger.
(d) So they can have breakfast.

2. What did Barq's unique trait predict, according to superstition?
(a) That the horse would save someone close to the father.
(b) That the horse would kill the son.
(c) That the horse would kill someone close to the father.
(d) That the father would kill someone close to him.

3. What does the mother hand the father in "The Land of Sad Oranges"?
(a) An orange.
(b) A tissue.
(c) An apple.
(d) A map.

4. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," what does the father send the children to do every morning?
(a) Buy food.
(b) Do household chores.
(c) To climb the hills.
(d) Go to school.

5. What sets off the father one day in "The Land of Sad Oranges"?
(a) A fight between the kids.
(b) A small request from the kids.
(c) Losing his job.
(d) A fight with his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Abul Khaizarun introduce himself to first?

2. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," what does the father do when he is set off?

3. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," when does the narrator return to the house?

4. What is the name of Abu Qais' teacher?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Abu Qais hopeless?

2. What does the son realize at the end of "If You Were a Horse"?

3. What did the orange represent in the beginning of "The Land of Sad Oranges"?

4. What is ironic about Abul Khaizarun confirming the bad reputation of smugglers?

5. Who are the antagonists in "The Land of Sad Oranges," and why?

6. What does the relinquishing of the weapons at Ras Naquora foreshadow?

7. In "If You Were a Horse," why does the father wish his son were a horse?

8. Why does the father resent Abu Muhammad?

9. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," why does the father come up with the murderous idea?

10. In "The Land of Sad Oranges," when a child requests something from his father, what happens?

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