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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (When You Don't Know What to Say - Plan Your Honeymoon).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What eventually destroys the writer's father's dream house?
(a) A tsunami.
(b) A tank.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A shell from an American ship.

2. What did the writer produce essays about in 2012 and 2013?
(a) Hippos.
(b) Syrian refugees.
(c) Language barriers.
(d) Hotels.

3. What is a favorite "surgeon" joke of Mina's?
(a) Her scalpel skills are better than her writing skills.
(b) The knife is mightier than the pen.
(c) Laughing gas is very funny.
(d) No one would dare insult her because they knew she would cut them up.

4. Where does Mina recall meeting the writer unofficially some years earlier?
(a) At a class in Chciago.
(b) At a dinner in Berlin.
(c) At a service project in Hines.
(d) At a reading in Boystown.

5. Where does the ferry take the refugees from Lesbos?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mina's mother say to her after the car accident?

2. How do Francine and Mina first meet Lubna?

3. What piece of jewelry does Mina not have as a child but end up buying for herself as an adult?

4. What happens to Morty in the chapter titled "A Terrorist by Any Other Name is Still a Terrorist"?

5. Why does seeing the writer frightened and battered in Moria feel disorienting to Mina?

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