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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 Mayako believe in from her father’s stories, which Big Sister tells her is foolish?
(a) Tree spirits.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Fairies.
(d) God.

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

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

4. In what state did Paul’s family have a home which he and Sarah would go to yearly?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) Maine.
(d) Vermont.

5. Who does Sarah move in with after she and Paul break-up?
(a) Parvin.
(b) An old college friend.
(c) Her new boyfriend.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Sarah’s occupation at Pearson, Peelle and Sloss?

2. What does Mahmoud show Sarah to prove that Parvin had sent him?

3. Who does the man who approaches Sarah at the airport at the start of “Tehran Calling” tell her he is?

4. Who is the leader of the boat?

5. When did Parvin move from Iran to Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Mai’s father five years after coming home from fighting the Communists?

2. Who is Roya and what role does she take in regards to Sarah’s visit to Parvin’s parent’s villa?

3. Who is the main character of “Tehran Calling” and where is she in the first lines of the story?

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

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

6. What does Mai notice is unusual about Quyen and Truong’s relationship on the boat?

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

8. What are Mahmoud and Parvin’s arguments regarding whether the play about the young girl who was killed should be reenacted during Ashura?

9. What does Big Sister bring Mayako to do with the Volunteer Corps?

10. Who is Anh Phuoc and what does he do on the boat?

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