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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 do to get his horse going when he was riding alone?
(a) Whacks the horse with his hands.
(b) Pats the horse on the head.
(c) Pulls the reins.
(d) Kicks his heels into the horse.

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

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

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

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 adjective is used to describe Khosrove's hair?

2. How does the narrator describe the time period when the story takes place?

3. What street does Arame live on?

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

5. What word is used to describe what Khosrove does to stop anyone from talking?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Khosrove and how is he described?

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

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

5. Why does Aram's cousin Mourad wake him up at 4 a.m. at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?

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

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

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

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

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

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