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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 67).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nuri scared of in Chapter 1?
(a) Snakes.
(b) His wife's eyes.
(c) Going broke.
(d) Drowning.

2. Why do Nuri and Afra keep going on their journey from Syria until they reach the United Kingdom?
(a) Their children are waiting for them there.
(b) Their parents are there.
(c) They are trying to get to where Mustafa has settled.
(d) They want to reach their religious friends there.

3. What is the name of the English social worker who helps Nuri and Afra?
(a) Mary Worthington.
(b) Margaret Hemley.
(c) Lucy Fisher.
(d) Norah Brown.

4. What does Mustafa thinks Firas spends too much time doing?
(a) Talking to his friends.
(b) Playing sports.
(c) Eating.
(d) Playing on his phone.

5. What did Afra miss so much when she first came to live with Nuri after they were married?
(a) The sea.
(b) The desert.
(c) Having good food.
(d) Having enough money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What annoys the man from Morocco about others' toilet habits?

2. What was the color of the city of Aleppo as Nuri remembers it?

3. What happens to Nuri's and Mustafa's hives in Part I?

4. What do the two men at the checkpoint in Aleppo try to force Nuri to take from them?

5. What is the name of a collective of bee hives and colonies?

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