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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. How does the smuggler say they will know when they have reached international waters?
2. What does Mustafa thinks Firas spends too much time doing?
3. How old was Firas in Part I?
4. What does Mohammed tell Nuri happened to him after he fell in the water?
5. What does Nuri find in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Mustafa routinely threaten his young son Firas with in Part I?
2. In Part II, what does the man from Morocco bring for Nuri to cheer him up?
3. What does Nuri attribute Mustafa's choice to send Dahab and Aya away from Syria so early to?
4. In Part II, what does Mustafa tell Nuri has been complicated about his own journey out of Syria on his way to England?
5. Why does it take Nuri so long to leave Aleppo after the violence begins there?
6. What is Nuri's impression of the English social worker, Lucy Fisher?
7. What does Nuri occasionally bring Afra in an effort to keep the emotional connection between them?
8. What does the Moroccan man at the bed and breakfast routinely hold and swing from his hands that Nuri notices?
9. How does Nuri describe how Afra was before the war?
10. Who does Nuri begin to see appearing in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I and why is this so extraordinary?
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
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 3
What does Angeliki's behavior, stories, and demeanor reveal about her life experiences and her time in the refugee camps? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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