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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. How many days worth of water does Anh Phuoc tell Mai and Quyen they have on the boat when he gives water to Truong in the pilothouse?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 0.
(d) 14.

2. When did Parvin move from Iran to Europe?
(a) When she was a teenager.
(b) When she was a baby.
(c) Just after college.
(d) In her 20s.

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

4. What was the purpose of Parvin’s radio show in America?
(a) To play music from Iran.
(b) To talk about the benefits of Islam.
(c) To campaign for women’s rights in Iran.
(d) To speak against women’s rights.

5. Who does Mai see sitting between an older couple at the beginning of “The Boat”?
(a) Truong.
(b) Quyen.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Mai’s father after being in the re-education camp?

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

3. What does an old woman on the boat say the ocean has taken from her?

4. When does Sarah feel was the only time she was ever happy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Mayako at the beginning of “Hirsoshima” and what is she doing with the other girls per Mrs. Sasaki’s orders?

2. What was Parvin’s radio program in the states called and what was its purpose?

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

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

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

6. How does Mayako’s mother describe her life as a child?

7. What does Mayako tell Mrs. Tamura after her parents visit her at the temple on Visiting Day?

8. What happens to Truong on the 13th day when they finally see land ahead?

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

10. Describe some of the sensory details in the first lines of “The Boat” when Mai is on the boat during the storm.

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