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

2. How long ago was Jadaan a hunter?
(a) Twenty years ago.
(b) One year ago.
(c) Ten years ago.
(d) Five years ago.

3. When Nabil's father asks him why he is tired, what does Nabil reply with?
(a) Someone woke him up too early.
(b) He was out all night.
(c) A list of medical possibilities.
(d) He is sick.

4. What does Jadaan say about falcons and death?
(a) They die when they are very old.
(b) They do not care where they die.
(c) They care where they die.
(d) They fight death.

5. What has Umm Saad's son done?
(a) He has joined the fedayeen.
(b) He got kicked out of school.
(c) He got fired.
(d) He got arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Umm Saad used to live?

2. In "The Falcon," who does not bother remembering the engineers' names?

3. What does Umm Saad ask her cousin?

4. What does Mubarak ask Abdallah?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jadaan show indifference to his job?

2. How do the images of Umm Saad vary, regarding her temperament?

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

4. How does Umm Saad want to support her son?

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

6. What unique trait of motherhood does Umm Saad display when speaking about Saad?

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

8. Why does Nabil decide to rob a grave?

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

10. What does the father's religiousness foreshadow in "A Hand in the Grave"?

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