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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (My Mother and the Can Opener - Trans Tiresias and the Great Goddesses).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Rania Kassem finally begin to find herself again after losing her way?
(a) When she can write again.
(b) When she gets her bank account back.
(c) When she can read again.
(d) When she acts as a doctor in the refugee camp.

2. Who is the Palestinian who asks Mina to help him in Part I?
(a) Sam.
(b) Robart.
(c) Rasheed.
(d) Mazen.

3. What skill does Mina have that makes her particularly valuable in dealing with refugees?
(a) She speaks Arabic.
(b) She is good at calming people down.
(c) She can cook very well.
(d) She can count money.

4. What does Mina remember calling her mother at the height of her rage in Part II?
(a) A whore.
(b) A pig.
(c) A stupid woman.
(d) A waste of space.

5. Where does Mina eventually go to college?
(a) Yale.
(b) Darthmouth.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Harvard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a young blonde volunteer scream at on the beach in Part II?

2. What does the unnamed writer say when a reader asks what his biggest losses from the worst years of the AIDS crisis were?

3. What does Asma want to be when she grows up?

4. Who was Mina's first romantic partner?

5. What happens to Rania Kassem's husband?

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