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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What words is used to describe the way most people in Aram's family view Mourad?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Volatile.
(c) Crazy.
(d) Intelligent.

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

3. What does Mourad tell Aram to do after they had been riding the horse for a little while?
(a) He feeds the horse.
(b) He tells him to get off the horse.
(c) He returns the horse.
(d) He takes Aram home.

4. Which relative of Aram's is described as having a furious temper?
(a) Khosrove.
(b) Byro.
(c) Arak.
(d) Mourad.

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) Open fields and endless dreams.
(d) Every wonder available to man.

6. How does Aram feel when he first gets on the horse alone?
(a) Confused.
(b) Upset.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Excited.

7. What is one of the reasons Aram thinks that what Mourad did is not really stealing?
(a) Because he works for the horse's owner.
(b) Because the owner had given him permission to ride the horse.
(c) Because he plans to return the horse.
(d) Because of how much the two boys are crazy about horses.

8. To what street do Mourad and Aram ride the horse?
(a) Olive St.
(b) Grape St.
(c) Farm St.
(d) Plum St.

9. How does Aram's cousin wake him up at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?
(a) By ringing his doorbell.
(b) By tapping his window.
(c) By pulling his blankets off of him.
(d) By yelling in his year.

10. What is Khosrove's son's name?
(a) Arak.
(b) Mourad.
(c) Aram.
(d) Zorab.

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

12. What does Aram see his cousin has when he looks out of his bedroom window?
(a) A hog.
(b) A horse.
(c) A car.
(d) A donkey.

13. How is Mourad's father described?
(a) Maniacal.
(b) Comical.
(c) Practical.
(d) Illogical.

14. How is Khosrove described physically?
(a) Enormous with black hair.
(b) Gigantic with light brown hair.
(c) Humungous with gray hair.
(d) Large with wild hair.

15. What street does Arame live on?
(a) Hazelnut St.
(b) Almond St.
(c) Walnut St.
(d) Pecan St.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does the narrator's cousin arrive at his home at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?

2. What does Aram say his "first longings" (4) were after seeing Mourad and the horse?

3. Where is Khosrove when his son runs to tell him some urgent news?

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

5. Where does Mourad run toward when looking for the horse?

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