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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 Mai after she finds an army flask of water and gives it to Truong?
(a) People threaten to throw her overboard for stealing water.
(b) Anh Phuoc yells at her.
(c) A man takes the flask back and hits her in the face with it.
(d) Truong tells her he loves her.

2. What type of music did Mayako’s mother and father see and hear on their first date?
(a) Choir.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Pop.
(d) Folk.

3. How old was Parvin when her family was forced into hiding?
(a) 21.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 4.

4. What did both Mayako and Yumiko’s father’s do after the Manchuria Incident?
(a) They disappeared.
(b) They went to China to fight.
(c) They fled to America.
(d) They fled to Australia.

5. What are all the women on the plane wearing at the beginning of “Tehran Calling”?
(a) Headscarves.
(b) Boots.
(c) Glasses.
(d) Baseball caps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Quyen confess to Mai she did with Truong after he was born?

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

3. Why did Sarah sometimes find it hard to believe in the oppression of those who called in to Parvin’s radio show?

4. What does someone say when a teenage girl throws herself overboard and someone suggests they help her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Quyen tell Mai she was going to ask Mai to do when they arrive on land to give her time to tell her husband about Truong?

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

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

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

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

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

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