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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 Mourad tell Aram he must do if he wants to ride the horse?
(a) Ask his father.
(b) Ask his mother.
(c) Make it quick.
(d) Get his boots.

2. What does Mourad yell to get the horse going when he is riding alone?
(a) Let's go.
(b) Onward.
(c) Vazire.
(d) Giddy up.

3. What is Aram's family name?
(a) Gashgaryan.
(b) Gertmenian.
(c) Georgyan.
(d) Garoghlanaian.

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

5. What does Aram say about his family's status somewhere around 11 centuries ago?
(a) They were wealthy.
(b) They were royalty.
(c) They were thieves.
(d) They were poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What street does Arame live on?

2. Which relative of Aram's is described as having a furious temper?

3. What news does Khosrove's' son run from his house to tell his father?

4. How is Khosrove described physically?

5. What happens to Aram after just a short time of riding the horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is life described from nine-year-old Aram's point of view at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?

2. Why does Mourad have Aram get off the horse after they have ridden for a short time?

3. What is the Gargoghlanaian family famous for, according to the narrator at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?

4. Who is Mourad's father and what is he like?

5. How is the socio-economic status of the Garoghlanaian family described?

6. Who is Khosrove and how is he described?

7. What is Aram's experience like when he first rides the horse?

8. What did Khosrove's son run to the barbershop to tell him one day and how did he respond?

9. How does Aram feel when he first rides the horse with his cousin?

10. Why is it so hard for Aram to believe his eyes when he sees his cousin Mourad on the horse?

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