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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 Sem running away from from his chldhood?
(a) November forest.
(b) September forest.
(c) December forest.
(d) October forest.

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

3. The last time that Sem and Sanja moved before her stroke, what did the movers lose?
(a) Sofa.
(b) Bed.
(c) Wastebaskets.
(d) Box of books.

4. When does Sem remember that a photographer he calls "M" (83) used to take photographs of Sem's apartment?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2001 or 2002.
(c) 2002 or 2003.
(d) 1999.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does a CT scan indicate that Sanja has a clot in an artery?

2. What color sweater did Sem wear in the 1980s?

3. What is the weather like at the beginning of "Snowflake," pages 121-171?

4. Who was the subject of a movie based on "M's" work?

5. Where is Sanja when she starts feeling her arm hurting and tingling?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unusual about the corridor from the elevator to Sem and Sanja's apartment door, and what problems has that caused?

2. What type of tennis shoes does Sanja have, and why are those typical of who she is and what she is like?

3. What did Sem find interesting about photographs "M" took of their apartment?

4. What does Sem think is problematic about how treatment is managed in the hospital?

5. What does Sem find interesting about the photographs that he and Harun took at Monument Valley?

6. In what language does Sem write?

7. What does Sem tell Sanja is in the hospital when she asks what happened to her?

8. What difficulties has Sanja had with allergies?

9. What hangs from Harun's belt, and what does Sem learn about them?

10. Why did Sanja say she was a smoker when she quit after Sem's heart attack?

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