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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Diomande and Hazim play in the B and B in the evening in Part II?
(a) Poker.
(b) Scrabble.
(c) Hangman, using English words.
(d) Uno.

3. What does Nuri think it is difficult getting used to in this foreign country, the United Kingdom?
(a) British newspapers.
(b) British clothes.
(c) British television.
(d) British manners.

4. What does Nuri find in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I?
(a) A salamander.
(b) A colony of ants.
(c) A bumblebee with no wings.
(d) A stray cat.

5. What do the people in one village in Turkey bring for the refugees as they pass?
(a) Blankets and food.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Money.

6. What is Mohammed most worried about when Nuri meets him?
(a) Never seeing his mother again.
(b) Having to live in America.
(c) Falling into the sea and drowning when they cross.
(d) Being separated from his brother.

7. Who falls off the boat in Part II whom Nuri goes into the water after?
(a) Afra.
(b) Mohammed.
(c) Aya.
(d) Dahab.

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

9. Where do all meetings with the social worker take place?
(a) In the bedroom.
(b) In the gymnasium.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the courtyard.

10. In Part I, who is Nuri amazed to see in the garden of the bed and breakfast?
(a) Dahab.
(b) Sami.
(c) Afra.
(d) Mohammed.

11. What does Mohammed call Nuri?
(a) Uncle Nuri.
(b) Sir.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Father.

12. Where do Afra and Nuri stay when they first arrive in England?
(a) A homeless shelter.
(b) A bed and breakfast.
(c) With a family member.
(d) With a friend.

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

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

15. 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) They want to reach their religious friends there.
(c) They are trying to get to where Mustafa has settled.
(d) Their parents are there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which university does Mustafa work at in Part I?

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

3. In Chapter 5, why does Nuri hate to see that Afra still seems to love him?

4. Who in Mustafa's family left Syria when the trouble first started?

5. Who does Nuri ask for help in getting the right papers for his doctor's visit?

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