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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 say he loves most about Afra in Part I?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her laugh.
(c) Her smell.
(d) Her hands.

2. What does Mustafa leave for Nuri at his house before he leaves Syria?
(a) A photo of the two of them along with a note.
(b) A packet of money.
(c) A Bible.
(d) Instructions for caring for the bees.

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

4. What does Mustafa say was the cause of Firas's death?
(a) This broken world.
(b) A bomb.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, who is Nuri amazed to see in the garden of the bed and breakfast?

2. What was the color of the city of Aleppo as Nuri remembers it?

3. Who does Afra implore Nuri to contact in Part I when they reach the United Kingdom?

4. What does Nuri think he hears as he waits in the doctor's office in Part II?

5. What do the people in one village in Turkey bring for the refugees as they pass?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Lucy Fisher tell Nuri about preparing for his asylum interview?

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

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

8. What does Mustafa routinely threaten his young son Firas with in Part I?

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

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

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