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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 is the name of Driss's business?
(a) The Place.
(b) The Angle.
(c) The Purview.
(d) The Pantry.

2. Where did Nora's parents move to the U.S. from?
(a) Morocco.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) Spain.

3. What does Jeremy do before becoming a police officer?
(a) He is an electrician.
(b) He is a Marine in the Iraq War.
(c) He is a teacher.
(d) He is a landscaper.

4. Who runs the department that deals with testing of samples for Coleman at the police department?
(a) Henries.
(b) Jeffries.
(c) Murphy.
(d) Smith.

5. Where did Jeremy drop out of college?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Stanford.
(c) University of Oregon.
(d) Cal State.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bails Fierro out of jail?

2. Who is Fierro's wife, soon to be separated?

3. Why is Salma so bitter towards Nora in Part II?

4. Who is Efrain's cousin that was badly injured in a knife attack?

5. What does Nora forget in her car at her father's funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the basis of Jeremy's friendship with Fierro?

2. What is the condition Jeremy places on bailing Fierro out of jail?

3. Why is Coleman uncomfortable talking to Murphy?

4. What early embarrassing experience does Maryam have in trying to speak to a stranger and make friends in Part I, during her early days in America?

5. Why does Efrain hesitate to go the police as a witness to the hit-and-run?

6. When is the one time Jeremy remembers his father telling him he was proud of Jeremy?

7. Why does Nora remember her father's death with contradictory thoughts?

8. What does Anderson Baker tell Coleman about the night Driss died in Part II?

9. What does Nora tell Jeremy that she feels about the money her father left her in Part II?

10. Why does Nora spend so much time at her father's cabin in Part II?

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