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

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

3. Why does it take Mustafa so long to leave Syria?
(a) He does not want to leave his wife and family there.
(b) He is worried about his bee hives.
(c) He does not want to leave his job.
(d) He does not want to leave his parents.

4. 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 broken dreams.
(d) She had a night of no dreams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nuri first meet Mohammed?

2. Where do all meetings with the social worker take place?

3. What is the name of the island Nuri and Afra initially land on after leaving Turkey on a boat?

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

5. What does the smuggler tell everyone on the boat to Greece to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does it take Nuri so long to leave Aleppo after the violence begins there?

3. What does Nuri find in the garden of the bed and breakfast that he is delighted with?

4. What does the Moroccan man at the bed and breakfast routinely hold and swing from his hands that Nuri notices?

5. What is Mohammed's greatest fear about the journey from Turkey to Greece?

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

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

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

9. In Part I, what does Nuri tell Afra he is waiting for before he can take her to the doctor?

10. What is Nuri's impression of the English social worker, Lucy Fisher?

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