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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. Where does Nuri fall asleep routinely in Part II?
(a) The garden of the B and B.
(b) The living room couch.
(c) The road.
(d) The basement.

2. Who in Mustafa's family left Syria when the trouble first started?
(a) Firas and Aya.
(b) Dahab and Aya.
(c) Dahab.
(d) Aya.

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

4. What does Hazim buy for Nuri that he thinks Nuri will appreciate?
(a) A gun.
(b) A book of poems from Syria.
(c) Special flowers for the bee in the garden of the B and B.
(d) Sleeping pills.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Diomande and Hazim play in the B and B in the evening in Part II?

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

3. Where does Mohammed tell Nuri to look for the key he says he needs?

4. What river did Afra once paint that Nuri wishes he could see the painting of again?

5. What does the Moroccan man at the bed and breakfast start calling Nuri?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Mustafa determine as the cause of death of his son, Firas?

3. In Part II, why is it so hard for Nuri to see that he can still make Afra a little bit happy?

4. What does the smuggler tell everyone in Part II to do as they cross the sea?

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

6. In Part II, what does Mustafa tell Nuri has been complicated about his own journey out of Syria on his way to England?

7. 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?

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

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