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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is Nuri waiting for to take Afra to the doctor in Chapter 1?
(a) To find the right subway system to get there.
(b) To find the right kind of doctor.
(c) The right paperwork.
(d) To be paid.

3. What does the smuggler tell everyone on the boat to Greece to do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Pray.
(c) Wear many layers of clothing.
(d) Turn off all phones and flashlights and make no noise.

4. Where in Syria is Nuri from?
(a) Western Aleppo.
(b) Eastern Aleppo.
(c) Damascus.
(d) Homs.

5. How old was Firas in Part I?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nuri pick of off a tree in the garden and take inside for Afra?

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

3. What is Mohammed most worried about when Nuri meets him?

4. What does Mustafa thinks Firas spends too much time doing?

5. In Part II, where is Mustafa at a camp that is near a factory?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nuri describe how Afra was before the war?

2. In one of his letters to Nuri, what does Mustafa say is one of the greatest differences between people and bees?

3. Why does Nuri's friend Elias decide not to make the trip from Turkey to Greece with the smuggler as they had both originally planned?

4. What does Nuri occasionally bring Afra in an effort to keep the emotional connection between them?

5. Who does Nuri begin to see appearing in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I and why is this so extraordinary?

6. What does Nuri attribute Mustafa's choice to send Dahab and Aya away from Syria so early to?

7. When does Mustafa finally decide it is time to leave Syria?

8. In Part I, what do the two soldiers Nuri meets on the street in Aleppo try to make him do?

9. What is strange about Nuri's sleeping habits at the bed and breakfast?

10. What does Nuri do for work temporarily while he is in Turkey waiting to move on?

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