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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: pp 1 - 10 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first reason Aram finds Mourad's possession of a horse hard to believe?
(a) His family is too poor to buy a horse.
(b) He did not know Mourad could ride a horse.
(c) He thought Mourad was scared of horses.
(d) He had never seen a real horse before.

2. What does Aram feel sure of about his family when he wonders how Mourad got the horse?
(a) He is sure most people in his family are as crazy as Mourad.
(b) He is sure no one is his family would ever steal.
(c) He is sure most people in his family could afford a horse.
(d) He is sure most people in his family would steal.

3. What phrase does Aram use to describe his family's financial status?
(a) Dirt poor.
(b) Poverty stricken.
(c) Deep-pocketed.
(d) Filthy rich.

4. What does Mourad begin to do while the two are riding the horse?
(a) Sing.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Whisper.
(d) Scream.

5. What does the narrator say the world was filled with at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?
(a) Sunlight and green pastures.
(b) Every imaginable kind of magnificent.
(c) Every wonder available to man.
(d) Open fields and endless dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words is used to describe the way most people in Aram's family view Mourad?

2. What does Khosrove say to stop being from talking when he is in a furious mood?

3. How is Mourad's father described?

4. What is happening just as Mourad returns to Aram?

5. What does Aram see his cousin has when he looks out of his bedroom window?

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