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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 161, what type of tie does the doctor wear to convey a positive impression to his patients?
(a) White with Dr. Seuss characters.
(b) Brightly colored with children's drawings.
(c) Black with brightly colored smiley faces.
(d) Navy with cartoon figures.

2. When did Sanja lose her photographic memory?
(a) After Harun was born.
(b) After her stroke.
(c) After she was caught in crossfire.
(d) After her a bombing on her buliding.

3. What color pickup is a man near who is stripped to the waist shaving?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) White.

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

5. Where does a CT scan indicate that Sanja has a clot in an artery?
(a) Neck.
(b) Right leg.
(c) Brain.
(d) Left shoulder.

6. What color ambulance takes Sanja to the hospital?
(a) Green and white.
(b) White and blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

7. Why was Sem in Germany in 1999?
(a) Frankfurt Book Fair.
(b) Buch Passion.
(c) Leipzig Book Fair.
(d) Buchmesse Berolina.

8. On what street in Las Vegas do Sem and Harun have a tire changed?
(a) Bonanza Road.
(b) Fremont Street.
(c) Elkhorn Road.
(d) Dean Martin Drive.

9. How long did the siege of Sarajevo last?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 2 years.

10. What did Sem start wearing with his pajamas when he would wake and go to work at his desk?
(a) Straw hat.
(b) Baseball cap.
(c) Fedora.
(d) Stocking cap.

11. When was Sanja allergic to everything?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1990s.

12. Where was Harun studying when Sem went for a reading at a place called Villa Aurora?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Denver.

13. Who was the subject of a movie based on "M's" work?
(a) Rafael Carrera.
(b) Somoza.
(c) Porfirio Diaz.
(d) Pinochet.

14. What month does Sanja have her stroke?
(a) June.
(b) March.
(c) April.
(d) May.

15. Where did the language that David, Sem, and Harun spoke used to be spoken?
(a) Bulgaria.
(b) Bosnia.
(c) Belarus.
(d) Yugoslavia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harun had his college admissions interview, where did he meet his interviewer?

2. Where was David the month before he meets Sem and Harun?

3. What was the name of the district where Sem and Sanja lived during the war?

4. What poet did Sem remember that Harun read in spite of his lack of interest in literature?

5. When Sem and Harun were at a cafe during a rain storm, where did a man tell them to go back to?

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