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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 was the color of the city of Aleppo as Nuri remembers it?
(a) Blue.
(b) Silver.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Red.
2. What is Mohammed most worried about when Nuri meets him?
(a) Falling into the sea and drowning when they cross.
(b) Having to live in America.
(c) Being separated from his brother.
(d) Never seeing his mother again.
3. Who in Mustafa's family left Syria when the trouble first started?
(a) Firas and Aya.
(b) Dahab.
(c) Dahab and Aya.
(d) Aya.
4. What river did Afra once paint that Nuri wishes he could see the painting of again?
(a) The Queiq.
(b) The Thames.
(c) The Nile.
(d) The Mississippi.
5. What do the people in one village in Turkey bring for the refugees as they pass?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Money.
(d) Blankets and food.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the head covering Afra always wears?
2. What is the name of the island Nuri and Afra initially land on after leaving Turkey on a boat?
3. Which of the following did Nuri feed the bees in his colony?
4. What is the name of Afra's and Nuri's son?
5. What is Nuri waiting for to take Afra to the doctor in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Nuri begin to see appearing in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I and why is this so extraordinary?
2. When does Mustafa finally decide it is time to leave Syria?
3. How does Nuri describe how Afra was before the war?
4. What does Mustafa routinely threaten his young son Firas with in Part I?
5. What is Mohammed's greatest fear about the journey from Turkey to Greece?
6. In Part I, what does Nuri tell Afra he is waiting for before he can take her to the doctor?
7. What does Nuri attribute Mustafa's choice to send Dahab and Aya away from Syria so early to?
8. What does Nuri find in the garden of the bed and breakfast that he is delighted with?
9. What does the Moroccan man at the bed and breakfast routinely hold and swing from his hands that Nuri notices?
10. What is strange about Nuri's sleeping habits at the bed and breakfast?
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