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

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

3. What does Khosrove say to stop being from talking when he is in a furious mood?
(a) Mind your business.
(b) Ignore it, it's no big deal.
(c) Never you mind.
(d) It is no harm; pay no attention to it.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mourad say when Aram asks if he will have a chance to ride the horse alone as well?

2. How does Aram describe the air while first riding the horse?

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

4. What does the narrator say the world was filled with at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Mourad say when Aram asks him if he stole the horse?

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

10. What does Aram tell himself to convince himself that his cousin's possession of the horse might not be stealing?

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