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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mahmoud tell the man with a club about Sarah when he approaches them in the square?
(a) She is his wife.
(b) She is an American tourist.
(c) She is his sister.
(d) She should be arrested.

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

3. Truong becomes to weak to do what toward the end of “The Boat”?
(a) Smile.
(b) Run.
(c) Sing.
(d) Swallow water.

4. Who is the main character of “Tehran Calling”?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Sally.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Sylvia.

5. What did Truong tell Mai he came to the upper deck to do after she gives him water?
(a) Play with friends.
(b) Count people.
(c) Throw himself overboard.
(d) Get some space from his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Mai after she finds an army flask of water and gives it to Truong?

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

3. What was the name of Parvin’s radio show in America?

4. What does Roya tell Sarah she can get for her if she would like because she knows where her parents keep it?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How crowded is the boat as described on p. 247 of “The Boat”?

2. What is going on the week Sarah arrived in Iran, which Mahmoud tells her is their holiest week?

3. Where does Mai’s mother send her the day after visiting her father in the hospital?

4. What does Anh Phuoc have in common with Mai’s father?

5. After Mai emerges from her fever and two-day sleep, what does she notice about Truong?

6. What does Sarah learn about why Parvin came to Iran after she tells Mahmoud that she came to Iran to escape a man?

7. What games do the children play when they play outside together, which leaves some of them weeping?

8. What does Mayako decide she will do at the end of “Hiroshima” and what does she say?

9. What are the issues Parvin expresses to Sarah that she has with her activist group and their constant meetings?

10. What are some of the first images Sarah sees in the terminal at the start of “Tehran Calling”?

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