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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nuri say he loves most about Afra in Part I?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her smell.
(c) Her laugh.
(d) Her hands.

2. In Part II, where does Mustafa say he has been fingerprinted and scanned as he waits to make his next travel plan?
(a) Greece.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

3. What mistake do the kings in Nuri's story to Mohammed in Part II make?
(a) They were too focused on romance.
(b) They were not concerned enough with feeding their citizens.
(c) They were too focused on horses.
(d) They were too concerned with riches and left their kingdom devoid of life.

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

5. What does Nuri tell Mohammed he would like to have as they wait for the journey across the sea to begin that makes the boy laugh?
(a) Camel wee.
(b) Slug slime.
(c) Bee balm.
(d) Socks.

6. What is the name of a collective of bee hives and colonies?
(a) Apiaries.
(b) Buzzeries.
(c) Greenhouses.
(d) Balmeries.

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

8. What does Mohammed play with in the garden of the B and B in Part II?
(a) A salamander.
(b) An ant.
(c) A bird.
(d) A worm.

9. What was the color of the city of Aleppo as Nuri remembers it?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Silver.

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

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

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

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

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

15. In Part II, where does Mustafa tell Nuri he was deported to from Macedonia?
(a) Germany.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Italy.
(d) Bulgaria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part I, who is Nuri amazed to see in the garden of the bed and breakfast?

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

4. What does Nuri find in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I?

5. What does Mohammed tell Nuri happened to him after he fell in the water?

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