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

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

3. What are the German bikers eating and throwing at one another at Furnace Creek?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Watermelon.
(c) Lemons.
(d) Grapes.

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 Mexican dessert is similar to the Bosnian dessert patispanja?
(a) Churros.
(b) Sopapillas.
(c) Tres leches.
(d) Mexican wedding cake.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Sem when Sanja has her stroke?

2. When did Harun live in an apartment in Los Angeles for just a few months with his girlfriend?

3. For writers from what country was Villa Aurora an exile refugee during World War II?

4. Who did "M" used to work for as a photographer?

5. When Sem reaches the hospital, what is a nurse giving Sanja?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Harun photograph at night, and to what does Sem compare the way that Harun creates photographs?

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

5. What encounter at a cafe does Sem recall?

6. How did Harun acquire the habit of going into the mountains when he was quite young, and what did he do there?

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

8. What is Sanja's situation by the time she has been in the hospital for four nights?

9. What form of address has Hraun used for Sem?

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

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