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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Nuri tell Mohammed he would like to have as they wait for the journey across the sea to begin that makes the boy laugh?
2. What color is Afra's hair in Chapter 1?
3. What do the people in one village in Turkey bring for the refugees as they pass?
4. Who is Afra's great-uncle that she remembers fondly in Part II?
5. What does Mustafa say was the cause of Firas's death?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Nuri occasionally bring Afra in an effort to keep the emotional connection between them?
2. How does Nuri describe how Afra was before the war?
3. In Part II, what does the man from Morocco bring for Nuri to cheer him up?
4. What does Mustafa routinely threaten his young son Firas with in Part I?
5. What does Nuri do for work temporarily while he is in Turkey waiting to move on?
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. What does the Moroccan man at the bed and breakfast routinely hold and swing from his hands that Nuri notices?
8. Why does it take Nuri so long to leave Aleppo after the violence begins there?
9. What does Lucy Fisher tell Nuri about preparing for his asylum interview?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Consider this sentence from Part V, relating to Nuri's feelings about Afra: "Inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know" (291). Write an essay explaining what you think Lefteri means with this statement.
Essay Topic 2
In Part V, what does the partial return of Afra's vision symbolize and portend? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does Nuri feel about Diomande, one of the other asylum-seekers staying at the bed and breakfast in England? What are some of the similarities and differences between Diomande's story and Nuri's story? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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