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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 do when he wakes up in Leros and finds Mohammed gone?
(a) Goes to the old asylum building to ask people if they have seen him.
(b) Finds a police officer and reports the boy missing.
(c) Wakes up Afra and asks her to help him look for her.
(d) Asks for a boat to go look for Mohammed.

2. In Leros, what times are the gates to the refugee area locked at night?
(a) 12.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

3. What does Nuri leave for Mohammed when he and Afra leave Leros?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Mohammed's marble and a letter.
(c) A painting and a letter.
(d) A letter, a passport, and some money.

4. Why does Nuri decide not to tell Afra they have been granted clearance to travel to Athens in Part III?
(a) Because he fears he will not be able to contact Mustafa from Athens.
(b) Because he is afraid of making the sea crossing again.
(c) Because he fears Afra is not well enough to travel.
(d) Because Mohammed is lost and he does not want to leave Leros without Mohammed.

5. What does the doctor tell Afra he thinks is happening with her eyesight?
(a) He thinks she might be able to see with a certain type of medication.
(b) He thinks her blindness might be psychological, not physical.
(c) He thinks her eyesight will be gone forever.
(d) He thinks she may be able to see in certain types of bright light.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the baby in the camp at Athens who finally starts nursing from her mother?

2. What insects' sounds does Nuri remember hearing in Athens?

3. What does Mohammed ask Nuri to get for him to eat in Leros?

4. What instrument does the man in the camp at Athens play so well?

5. What name do the twin boys know Nadim by?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part III, how does Afra say she is able to keep drawing even though she is blind?

2. In Part IV, what are some of the things the asylum interviewer asks Nuri that agitate him?

3. In Part IV, what does Angeliki tell Nuri about her great sorrow?

4. In Part III, what does Angeliki tell Nuri about her condition and circumstances?

5. In Part IV, why is Nuri concerned about the twin boys in the camp in Greece?

6. What does Nuri remember about his father's reaction to him not wanting to work in his father's store?

7. In Part IV, what does Nadim do to Nuri that shocks Nuri?

8. In Part IV, what story does Angeliki tell Nuri about Odysseus?

9. In Part III, what does Nuri go to some trouble to find and buy for Mohammed, even though he has not seen Mohammed for a while?

10. In Part IV, what does Nuri do to Nadim that haunts him later?

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