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

2. What does Nora initially study in college before changing her mind?
(a) Landscaping.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Law.
(d) Literature.

3. Who does Nora frequently call to check on the investigation into her father's death?
(a) Coleman.
(b) Fierro.
(c) Henries.
(d) Gorecki.

4. Who are Salma's children?
(a) Aida and Zaid.
(b) Aida and Helen.
(c) Rory and Zaid.
(d) Zaid and Aidan.

5. What does Jeremy say Fierro has to do as a condition of bail?
(a) Start running.
(b) Go to group therapy.
(c) Eat better.
(d) Get a job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coleman's colleague's son ask Coleman's son to participate in early in Part II?

2. What does Salma do for a living?

3. Where did Jeremy drop out of college?

4. What does Nora find out her father ordered for a woman who was not her mother?

5. What name does Jeremy see on the board at the police station that makes him stop cold?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jeremy's father change after his mother's death?

3. What happens at the school play that ruins it for Efrain?

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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