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

2. What does Jeremy struggle with regularly?
(a) Bunions.
(b) Drug addiction.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Diabetes.

3. What common interest do Nora and Jeremy have in high school?
(a) Track.
(b) Chess.
(c) Music.
(d) Math.

4. What ruins Efrain's enjoyment of the play?
(a) He sees Driss's last name in the program and thinks of Driss and the accident.
(b) He is very ill with a migraine.
(c) His phone rings constantly.
(d) He gets an asthma attack.

5. Where is Nora the night her father is killed?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Oakland.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coleman refuse to reveal to Nora when she asks in Part II?

2. What happens to Driss's business after 9/11?

3. Who sees Driss's death occur?

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

5. Who is Jeremy's friend from the military?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Coleman move to a Mojave Desert town?

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

5. Who tries to persuade Efrain to go to the police with his information, and why?

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

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

8. Why does Salma become so bitter towards Nora in Part II?

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

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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