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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. When did Sem have a small bookshop in the Sarajevo Society of Writers?
(a) Middle 1990s.
(b) Early 1980s.
(c) Late 1980s.
(d) Beginning of the 1990s.

2. When Sem and Harun were at a cafe during a rain storm, where did a man tell them to go back to?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) Lithuania.
(d) Bosnia.

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

4. Where does Sem try to catch up with his email on Harun's laptop, but he cannot remember his passwords?
(a) Crystal Springs, Nevada.
(b) Mountain Springs, Nevada.
(c) Beatty, Nevada.
(d) Mercury, Nevada.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the person who visits Sanja in the hospital and gives her a face massage?

2. Where does Sanja want to be buried?

3. How long did Sem live in the same town with Sanja's father?

4. What abandoned mining town are Sem and Harun driving toward when a wild rabbit leaps out in the road in front of them?

5. When Sem was at Villa Aurora, where was the journalist from who would have been arrested if he returned to his country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sem remember Harun telling a college interviewer?

2. In what language does Sem write?

3. What do they learn about Sanja's condition after doing scans at the hospital?

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

5. Why do they not know how to treat Sanja after her stroke?

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

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

8. What ritual did Sem and Harun develop when Harun was a child?

9. How has Sem noticed America closing itself up from the outside world?

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

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