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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people do when they pass by the man in the mourning procession who is bleeding from his scalp?
(a) Bandage his wound.
(b) Call for help.
(c) Scream.
(d) Dip their sleeves into his blood.

2. What group does Mayako’s sister allow her to join, which they keep a secret from their mother?
(a) The Emperor’s Corps.
(b) The Peace Corps.
(c) The Imperial Corps.
(d) Volunteer Corps.

3. Where is Sarah at the beginning of “Tehran Calling”?
(a) A train.
(b) An Uber.
(c) An airplane.
(d) A taxicab.

4. What do the children play at the temple, which leaves some of them in tears?
(a) Dodge ball.
(b) House.
(c) Cards.
(d) War.

5. What do they eat everyday at the Temple?
(a) Bread and water.
(b) Soybean rice.
(c) Steak and potatoes.
(d) Fish.

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

7. Who is telling the girls to keep their back straight while cleaning the floors at the beginning of “Hiroshima”?
(a) Big Sister.
(b) Mr. Sasaki.
(c) Mayako.
(d) Mrs. Sasaki.

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

9. What insects do Mayako and the other children catch at the Temple?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Caterpillars.
(c) Ants.
(d) Dragon Flies.

10. What happens to Truong at the end of “The Boat”?
(a) Mai adopts him.
(b) He sees land.
(c) He dies.
(d) He loses his mother.

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

12. In what year did a bomb destroy the apartment building in which Parvin's best friend lived?
(a) 1978.
(b) 2008.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1999.

13. Who does Sarah assure Parvin she will not make her talk about even though Parvin had asked her to talk about?
(a) Paul.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Roya.
(d) Mahmoud.

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

15. What was the name of Parvin’s radio show in America?
(a) Islam Calling.
(b) Parvin Calling.
(c) Tehran Calling.
(d) American Calling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Quyen tell Mai she and Truong are going?

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

3. What does a women on the boat say Truong has when Mai wakes to see he has vomited?

4. What real story did the play Parvin watched when Sarah arrived in Iran include?

5. Who does Roya tell Sarah had been shot in 1999 in the same square in which the rally will take place?

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