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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 see Nadim doing in the woods?
(a) Beating a woman.
(b) Killing a lamb.
(c) Cutting himself.
(d) Killing a young boy.

2. What does Hazim tell Diomande about his asylum interview?
(a) He needs to talk more about his job.
(b) He needs to make up a sadder story.
(c) He needs to just tell the essentials of his story without extras.
(d) He needs to talk more about his mother.

3. What does Nuri discover about the rules for aid workers' interactions with refugees?
(a) The aid workers are not supposed to talk with the refugees.
(b) The aid workers are supposed to try to learn the refugees' language.
(c) The aid workers are supposed to try to find out where the refugees came from.
(d) The aid workers are only allowed to see each refugee once.

4. What does Afra say is the last thing she saw before becoming blind?
(a) Sami's eyes.
(b) Nuri's eyes.
(c) Her house.
(d) A cat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the man in the cabin next door on Leros tell his young daughter about her mother?

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

3. Which doctor does Nuri take Afra to in Part IV?

4. Who wraps Nuri's wound in Part IV?

5. What did Nadim give the twin boys when they first arrived in the camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part III, why does a young aid worker tell Nuri there have been trouble in the camps lately?

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

3. In Part IV, what does Lucy Fisher tell Nuri after seeing his face when he comes out of his asylum interview?

4. Why do people laugh at Nuri when he tells them he wants to make his way to England in Part IV?

5. In Part IV, what does the doctor tell Afra about her eyesight that shocks her and Nuri?

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

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

8. 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?

9. In Part III, why does the aid worker Neil feel awkward explaining the premises at Athens to Nuri?

10. In Part III, what does Nuri write to Mustafa to say has brought him joy to hear?

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