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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Me'Med," when does Sem remember he and Harun were on their way from Zagreb to Phoenix?

2. Near an abandoned gas pump on an overgrown parking lot, what car does Sem see with a March edition of The New Yorker on the seat?

3. How long is the flight from Washington to Phoenix?

4. What type of tree used to be outside the first apartment Sem and his family had in the United States?

5. Where was the Bosnian doctor working who Sem heard was smoking behind the hospital building?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sem remember from November 1992?

2. What is Sem wrapped in when he goes to the hospital and where did he get it from?

3. With whom does Sem share a room when he is moved out of intensive care into a hospital ward?

4. What does Sem connect the pain in his throat and the metallic taste in his mouth to?

5. What story does Sanja tell Sem about smoking?

6. What does Sem see when the ambulance stops in front of the hospital?

7. How does Sem feel as he is in the ambulance on the way to the hospital?

8. Why is Harun affected by something that happened at a local film festival that just closed in "Red Bandana"?

9. What is Arcosanti?

10. Who was Ilija Ladin, and what did Sem say about him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it fiction?

Essay Topic 2

Sem feels that he is an object when he is examined by the paramedics. Why does Sem feel like an object when he is surrounded by paramedics? What does he realized about his body? Why does he see it as “an object conveying nothing” (9)?

Essay Topic 3

A simile is a figure of speech that is used to make comparisons between things. How does the use of metaphors or similes to help readers comprehend concepts? How does the use of similes help readers make the writing more interesting? What purpose do similes serve in the book?

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