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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the head covering Afra always wears?
(a) Hat.
(b) Abaya.
(c) Hijab.
(d) Fascinator.

2. What river did Afra once paint that Nuri wishes he could see the painting of again?
(a) The Nile.
(b) The Thames.
(c) The Queiq.
(d) The Mississippi.

3. What color is Afra's hair in Chapter 1?
(a) The color of coal.
(b) The color of sand.
(c) The color of flames.
(d) The color of honey.

4. Who is Mustafa married to?
(a) Rona.
(b) Dahab.
(c) Aya.
(d) Nadia.

5. Where do Afra and Nuri set up a stall at the market on Sundays to sell Afra's art?
(a) Just opposite Hamid, who sells tea.
(b) Opposite Mariq, who sells jewelry/
(c) Right next to the riverbank.
(d) Under the turquoise awning.

6. What do the two men at the checkpoint in Aleppo try to force Nuri to take from them?
(a) A camera.
(b) Drugs.
(c) A gun.
(d) Money.

7. What annoys the man from Morocco about others' toilet habits?
(a) No one flushes.
(b) Everyone flushes after once use and wastes water.
(c) The men stand up to urinate.
(d) Everyone locks the door.

8. How old was Mustafa when his mother died?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 34.
(d) 40.

9. What does Mohammed tell Nuri happened to him after he fell in the water?
(a) He died a little bit.
(b) He got very hot.
(c) He saw an angel.
(d) He got very cold.

10. What does the Moroccan man at the bed and breakfast start calling Nuri?
(a) Friend.
(b) Geezer.
(c) Sir.
(d) Mister.

11. How does the smuggler say they will know when they have reached international waters?
(a) They will see boats.
(b) They will see lights.
(c) The water will change; it will become foreign.
(d) The wind will change.

12. What color are Mohammed's eyes?
(a) Brown.
(b) Green.
(c) Black.
(d) Grey.

13. Who does Afra implore Nuri to contact in Part I when they reach the United Kingdom?
(a) Dahab.
(b) Mustafa.
(c) Lucy Fisher.
(d) Her own father.

14. What is the name of Afra's and Nuri's son?
(a) Firas.
(b) Sami.
(c) John.
(d) Mustafa.

15. In Chapter 1, what does Afra say about her night of dreams?
(a) She had a night of lovely dreams.
(b) She dreamed the same dream repeatedly in one night.
(c) She had a night of no dreams.
(d) She had a night of broken dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nuri think he hears as he waits in the doctor's office in Part II?

2. What is Nuri waiting for to take Afra to the doctor in Chapter 1?

3. In Part II, what does one woman waiting to get on the boat in Turkey say is the most dangerous crossing in the world?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Nuri remember he and Afra doing every Saturday?

5. What does the new resident at the B and B wear that the Moroccan man thinks is strange?

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