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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mai sleep for two days on the boat?
(a) She takes a sleeping pill.
(b) She has a fever.
(c) She is depressed.
(d) She is bored.

2. Who is Truong’s mother?
(a) Mai.
(b) Mia.
(c) Quyen.
(d) Mayako.

3. What did Parvin decide the day her best friend’s apartment building was bombed?
(a) She needed to leave the country some day.
(b) She would fight in a war.
(c) She would start a radio program.
(d) She would become an activist.

4. What did Mayayako’s father do after fighting in China, which she does not tell Yumiko?
(a) He ran away from the family.
(b) He was a teacher at the temple.
(c) He died.
(d) He became a Shinto priest.

5. How many people are on the boat in a space made for 15 when Mai first gets on?
(a) 30.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 15.

6. Where is Mayako living with her mother and sister at the start of “Hiroshima”?
(a) A refugee camp.
(b) A temple.
(c) Their house.
(d) Her grandmothers.

7. What does Quyen confess to Mai she did with Truong after he was born?
(a) Abandoned him with strangers.
(b) Put him up for adoption.
(c) Gave him to her aunt to raise.
(d) Left him with his father.

8. What does a women on the boat say Truong has when Mai wakes to see he has vomited?
(a) The sickness.
(b) A stomach bug.
(c) The flu.
(d) Food poisoning.

9. What does Roya tell Sarah she can get for her if she would like because she knows where her parents keep it?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Beer.
(d) Wine or opium.

10. Who does the man who approaches Sarah at the airport at the start of “Tehran Calling” tell her he is?
(a) Parvin’s friend.
(b) Her cab driver.
(c) Her fiancé.
(d) A police officer.

11. Why is Sarah confused when Mahmoud brings her to a hotel?
(a) She thought she was staying with Parvin.
(b) It is the wrong hotel.
(c) She has never met Mahmoud before.
(d) She asked him to bring her some place else.

12. What is Big Sister’s nickname for Mayako?
(a) Little Carrot.
(b) Little Turnip.
(c) Little Coconut.
(d) Little Sister.

13. What does Mahmoud say Parvin was encouraging people in Iran to do from her radio station in America?
(a) Go out in the streets.
(b) Hate each other.
(c) Destroy Islam.
(d) Listen to American music.

14. What does someone say when a teenage girl throws herself overboard and someone suggests they help her?
(a) She was no good anyway.
(b) Get the life preserver!
(c) One less mouth to feed.
(d) Let her be if that is what she wants.

15. Mahmoud tells Sarah she has come during what holy time of year?
(a) Ramadan.
(b) Islamic New Year.
(c) Ashura.
(d) Hajj.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people do when they pass by the man in the mourning procession who is bleeding from his scalp?

2. Who does Sarah move in with after she and Paul break-up?

3. What happens to Truong at the end of “The Boat”?

4. The narrative of “Hiroshima” flashes to scenes of Mayko’s clothes being wet because she did what?

5. What do Parvin and Mahmoud argue about at the meeting at Parvin’s parent’s house?

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