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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 do Diomande and Hazim play in the B and B in the evening in Part II?
2. What is the name of a collective of bee hives and colonies?
3. Where does Mohammed tell Nuri to look for the key he says he needs?
4. Where in Syria is Nuri from?
5. What does Mohammed call Nuri?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mustafa determine as the cause of death of his son, Firas?
2. What is Nuri's impression of the English social worker, Lucy Fisher?
3. What is strange about Nuri's sleeping habits at the bed and breakfast?
4. What does Nuri do for work temporarily while he is in Turkey waiting to move on?
5. What does Nuri occasionally bring Afra in an effort to keep the emotional connection between them?
6. Why does it take Nuri so long to leave Aleppo after the violence begins there?
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. What is Mohammed's greatest fear about the journey from Turkey to Greece?
9. How does Nuri describe how Afra was before the war?
10. In Part I, what do the two soldiers Nuri meets on the street in Aleppo try to make him do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What effect do you think Lefteri's choice to write the book from Nuri's point of view in the first person have on the reader? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 2
How does Nadim's music and songs affect Nuri when he is waiting in the camp in Athens? What does the music make Nuri think of? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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