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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Sanja when she starts feeling her arm hurting and tingling?
(a) Living room.
(b) Kitchen.
(c) Bedroom.
(d) Bathroom.

2. For writers from what country was Villa Aurora an exile refugee during World War II?
(a) Yugoslavia.
(b) Czechoslovakia.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Germany.

3. How old is Sem when Sanja has her stroke?
(a) 52.
(b) 56.
(c) 57.
(d) 54.

4. After her stroke, on what floor of the hospital is Sanja?
(a) 8th.
(b) 9th.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 5th.

5. What was the name of the street where Sanja and Sem lived two years before her stroke?
(a) Columbia Pike.
(b) Long Bridge Drive.
(c) Franklin Road.
(d) Johnson Lane.

6. Who did "M" used to work for as a photographer?
(a) The Nation.
(b) Life.
(c) Time.
(d) National Geographic.

7. What key does Harun still have when he and Sem are traveling?
(a) Key to the apartment in Sarajevo.
(b) Key to his first car.
(c) Key to his first apartment.
(d) Key to their Phoenix apartment.

8. Where does Sanja want to be buried?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Near the ocean.
(c) Bosnia.
(d) Arlington.

9. In 1999, who does Sem remember standing in front of a hotel smoking a cigar?
(a) Ali Podrimja.
(b) Alex Crevar.
(c) Tea Obreht.
(d) Ivo Andric.

10. To what Rolling Stones' song were some of Harun's photographs used as illustrations?
(a) Little Rain.
(b) Living in a Ghost Town.
(c) Moonlight Mile.
(d) Midnight Rambler.

11. When did Sem remember living in the studio of the fine-art group Zvono?
(a) May and June 1992.
(b) September and October 1992.
(c) July and August 1992.
(d) March and April 1992.

12. What was the name of the district where Sem and Sanja lived during the war?
(a) Nahorevo.
(b) Grbavica.
(c) Sedrenik.
(d) Skenderija.

13. When did Harun live in an apartment in Los Angeles for just a few months with his girlfriend?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2004.

14. What poet did Sem remember that Harun read in spite of his lack of interest in literature?
(a) Rumi.
(b) Saadi.
(c) Iqbal.
(d) Khayyam.

15. How many cigarettes does Sanja say that she smokes a day when she is taken to the hospital?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 3 or 4.
(d) 2 to 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. After taking a cable care to Trebevic, how would Harun get to the top of the mountain?

2. Before Sanja's stroke, when was the last time they moved?

3. Where was Sem in 1999?

4. Where was Sem working when Harun's student film aired?

5. Where was Harun studying when Sem went for a reading at a place called Villa Aurora?

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