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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Fierro want to do after therapy?
2. What does Efrain think Driss does in Part III to torture him?
3. What sport had A.J. liked in high school?
4. What does the person who hit Driss say he thought he had hit?
5. What does A.J. remember doing with his mother that he liked?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Nora frustrated with Ray in Part IV?
2. What does Fierro do in the support group that really angers Jeremy?
3. Why does Nora decide not to tell her mother about Driss's affair?
4. What does Fletcher do in Iraq that Jeremy can never get over?
5. What does Nora begin to piece together as a reason Anderson Baker might have wanted to kill her father?
6. Why is Coleman increasingly worried about Miles in Part III?
7. What does Nora remember about A.J. from high school?
8. What does Fierro asks Jeremy about Nora in Part IV that upsets him?
9. What does Nora do after sleeping with Jeremy for the first time that shocks and upsets him?
10. What does Salma do to cope with the pressures of her job and family in Part IV?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Lalami treat the theme of infidelity in general, and what does Nora's discovery of her father's affair do to her perception of herself and her own affair with Max, a married man? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
What are the most significant factors and feelings within the strong rivalry between Salma and Nora? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
The reader learns about Driss's dishonesty and infidelity to Maryam as the plot progresses, but when and how does Lalami reveal Maryam's own dishonesty in the relationship, and how does this affect the reader's perception of her? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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