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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. How does Jadaan feel about Mubarak?
(a) He despises him.
(b) He likes him.
(c) He is ashamed of him.
(d) He trusts him.

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

3. Who was Jadaan in love with at one time?
(a) A red-haired woman.
(b) His wife.
(c) A brunette woman.
(d) A blonde woman.

4. What does the narrator note concerning Umm Saad?
(a) Her hate.
(b) Her sorrow.
(c) Her anger.
(d) Her joy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of woman is Umm Saad?

2. What does the father call Nabil?

3. What would Umm Saad do without her two other children?

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

5. What does Jadaan refuse to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jadaan similar to Nar?

2. How does Jadaan show indifference to his job?

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

4. How does Umm Saad support her son at the end of the story?

5. What happens to Suhail after the graveyard plan?

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

7. Why does Nabil transfer out of medical school?

8. What has Saad done, and how does his mother initially react?

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

10. Why does Nabil decide to rob a grave?

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