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

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

3. What does Nabil's sister offer to her father?
(a) Eggs.
(b) A book.
(c) Tea.
(d) Coffee.

4. What kind of woman is Umm Saad?
(a) An angry woman.
(b) A strong woman.
(c) A weak woman.
(d) A controlling woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Umm Saad ask her cousin?

2. What does Abdallah ask Jadaan for advice about?

3. Who did Jadaan used to pay to fulfill his responsibility?

4. What does Umm Saad tell her cousin to tell the commander?

5. What does the falcon find?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nabil's physical appearance at the beginning of the story say about him?

2. How is Umm Saad related to the narrator, and how is this revealed?

3. How does Jadaan show his indifference to everyone around him?

4. Briefly describe the story of the Nar.

5. Why does Nabil transfer out of medical school?

6. Why would it be irrational for Suhail to think that he stuck his fingers in the corpse's eyes?

7. In "The Falcon," where did the gazelle go when it left, and why?

8. What does Nabil learn about the graveyard seven years later?

9. How is Jadaan similar to Nar?

10. What does Umm Saad think of her other two children?

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