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

2. Why did Sarah sometimes find it hard to believe in the oppression of those who called in to Parvin’s radio show?
(a) Their stories sounded too far fetched.
(b) They seemed to have a liberal education.
(c) She did not think they could get Parvin’s radio station in Iran.
(d) Their stories did not sound too bad.

3. What are people on the boat doing as a result of the storm?
(a) Jumping off.
(b) Screaming.
(c) Huddling close together.
(d) Vomiting.

4. As Parvin, Sarah, and Mahmoud walk through a mourning procession, Sarah sees people throw what “over their shoulders like dinner jackets” (188)?
(a) Rope.
(b) Whips.
(c) Iron chains.
(d) Dinner Jackets.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are all the women on the plane wearing at the beginning of “Tehran Calling”?

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

5. Who is Sarah sitting on a hotel bed with at the end of “Tehran Calling”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Sarah thinks when she watches the call to prayer from the window of her room at Parvin’s?

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

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

5. What happens to the bodies of those who die on the boat?

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

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

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

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

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

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