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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 129 - 206).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hazim tell Diomande about his asylum interview?
(a) He needs to talk more about his job.
(b) He needs to make up a sadder story.
(c) He needs to talk more about his mother.
(d) He needs to just tell the essentials of his story without extras.

2. What does Hazim buy for Nuri that he thinks Nuri will appreciate?
(a) Sleeping pills.
(b) A gun.
(c) A book of poems from Syria.
(d) Special flowers for the bee in the garden of the B and B.

3. What does Nuri suspect the man who plays the instrument in Athens of doing in Part III?
(a) Stealing money from everyone.
(b) Killing the kids in the camp.
(c) Trying to sabotage everyone's efforts at being granted asylum.
(d) Exploiting the young and vulnerable.

4. What happens to Nuri's and Mustafa's hives in Part I?
(a) They are stolen.
(b) They are ruined by predators.
(c) Nuri and Mustafa ask a friend to look after them and the bees all die due to neglect.
(d) Vandals destroy them.

5. What does Mustafa say was the cause of Firas's death?
(a) A knife.
(b) A gun.
(c) This broken world.
(d) A bomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mustafa leave for Nuri at his house before he leaves Syria?

2. In Part II, what does Nuri buy for Afra that he thinks she will like?

3. Why does it take Mustafa so long to leave Syria?

4. What instrument does the man in the camp at Athens play so well?

5. Who does Nuri meet in Turkey that encourages him to try to connect with a smuggler to cross the sea?

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