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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. What was the name of a girlfriend Mamuh remembers from college in Chapter 4?

2. What are the walls of Elsa and Samuel's house made of?

3. What time is it in Paris when Hannah sends Mamush a photo of a cut apple?

4. In college, how many days did Mamush spend writing a pretend biography?

5. How long had Samuel been driving a cab in DC when he was mistakenly arrested?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation does Mamush imagine having with Samuel when he goes upstairs to Elsa and Samuel's room?

2. What does Mamush remember about the drive when he and Hannah first visited America together?

3. Who was Samuel and what did Mamush remember about life with him?

4. What does Mamush know and remember about living in Chicago?

5. When and why did Samuel insist Mamush celebrate Thanksgiving with him and Elsa after college and Mamush started his career?

6. What happens before the first guests leave Samuel and Elsa's house?

7. What is wrong with Mamush's son?

8. How did Samuel try to help Mamush when he stopped writing?

9. Where did Mamush spend time a few months after his son was born?

10. What song did Mamush hum to Hannah, and how was the song familiar to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A character arc is the inner journey of a character in a book. What is Mamush’s character arc, and what situations influence his growth and maturity?

Essay Topic 2

In media res is the technique of beginning a story with a pivotal point or a situation that is the end to a series of events. Where does Mengestu begin the story? How does he plunge into the story without an explanation? How does beginning the story in the middle of the action affect the plot and affect readers?

Essay Topic 3

Samuel was Mamush's father. However, they had more of an uncle/nephew relationship than a father/son relationship. How would you describe the relationship between Mamush and Samuel?

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