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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 someone say when a teenage girl throws herself overboard and someone suggests they help her?
(a) Get the life preserver!
(b) Let her be if that is what she wants.
(c) One less mouth to feed.
(d) She was no good anyway.

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

3. Why is Sarah confused when Mahmoud brings her to a hotel?
(a) It is the wrong hotel.
(b) She thought she was staying with Parvin.
(c) She asked him to bring her some place else.
(d) She has never met Mahmoud before.

4. What does an old woman on the boat say the ocean has taken from her?
(a) Her life.
(b) Her youth.
(c) Her sons.
(d) Her husband and daughters.

5. How many people die during the two days Mai sleeps on the boat?
(a) 200.
(b) 0.
(c) 14.
(d) 35.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Parvin when her family was forced into hiding?

2. Who does Sarah assure Parvin she will not make her talk about even though Parvin had asked her to talk about?

3. The narrative of “Hiroshima” flashes to scenes of Mayko’s clothes being wet because she did what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sarah surprised by Parvin’s passion for women’s rights in Iran?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Sarah learn about Parvin’s past life in Iran before leaving for Europe?

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

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