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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. Who is Mustafa's daughter?
2. 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?
3. How old was Mustafa when his mother died?
4. Why does it take Mustafa so long to leave Syria?
5. Who is the new resident at the B and B in Part II?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is strange about Nuri's sleeping habits at the bed and breakfast?
2. What does Mustafa determine as the cause of death of his son, Firas?
3. 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?
4. In Part II, why is it so hard for Nuri to see that he can still make Afra a little bit happy?
5. How does Nuri describe how Afra was before the war?
6. In Part I, what do the two soldiers Nuri meets on the street in Aleppo try to make him do?
7. Who first sparks Nuri's interest in beekeeping, and what is that person's own history with beekeeping?
8. Who does Nuri begin to see appearing in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I and why is this so extraordinary?
9. In Part II, what does the man from Morocco bring for Nuri to cheer him up?
10. What does Nuri find in the garden of the bed and breakfast that he is delighted with?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Nuri delay contacting Mustafa for so long after reaching the United Kingdom? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.
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
What do you think are some of the reasons Nuri is initially attracted to bees and beekeeping in Syria? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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