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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. Who is Coleman's son?
(a) John.
(b) Henry.
(c) Miles.
(d) James.

2. Who is Efrain's cousin that was badly injured in a knife attack?
(a) Mirabella.
(b) Elena.
(c) Luisa.
(d) Alonso.

3. Why does Jeremy insist on driving Nora home to the cabin in Part II?
(a) She lost her glasses.
(b) She has a headache.
(c) She had too much to drink.
(d) She has a flat tire.

4. Who sees Driss's death occur?
(a) Efrain.
(b) Robert.
(c) Nora.
(d) Henry.

5. Why does the witness to the accident not want to come forward to the police?
(a) He is actually blind and only heard the killing.
(b) He is very shy.
(c) He can not speak very well.
(d) He is an undocumented immigrant and fears trouble with the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the wife of the witness to the accident?

2. Who is Nora having an affair with?

3. Where is Nora the night her father is killed?

4. Why does Nora think Driss leaves her what he leaves her in his will?

5. How does Jeremy's mother die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Jeremy decide to go to Nora's family's house for her father's wake?

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

5. Why is Coleman uncomfortable talking to Murphy?

6. How do Nora and Salma embarrass Maryam in Part II?

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

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

9. What happens to Driss's donut shop after 9/11?

10. What does Maryam do in the period that Nora thinks of as the "Cold War" phase of her parents' relationship?

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