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

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

3. Who questions Anderson Baker about the hit-and-run?
(a) Hendricks.
(b) Coleman.
(c) Singh.
(d) Gorecki.

4. What does Coleman's colleague's son ask Coleman's son to participate in early in Part II?
(a) A basketball game.
(b) A math competition.
(c) A tennis match.
(d) A baseball game.

5. What does Nora do for a living?
(a) She is a dentist.
(b) Teach and compose music.
(c) She is an accountant.
(d) She is a painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to see Nora out of the blue at her father's wake?

2. Where does Jeremy go to bail Fierro out?

3. In Part II, what does Nora share with Jeremy in high school that he never forgets?

4. What does Nora's mother often say to her throughout the years?

5. Why does Jeremy insist on driving Nora home to the cabin in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nora get upset at Salma's husband Tareq for his suggestions early in Part I?

2. Why does Jeremy go to see Mary in Part II?

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

4. What happens that destroys Jeremy's family while he is in high school?

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

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

7. How does Nora challenge Jeremy on his past in Part II?

8. What is Nora's relationship with Salma like?

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

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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