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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. Where does Rania Kassem go after leaving the camp?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Austria.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

2. What was Mina's birth name?
(a) Ayman.
(b) Henry.
(c) Hazen.
(d) Firas.

3. Why does a friend of Rania Kassem's insist she leave the camp in the end of the section titled "How to Become a Westerner"?
(a) She has a chance to marry and have children.
(b) Her brother is sponsoring her.
(c) She is sick.
(d) It is too dangerous for her personal safety to stay.

4. What does the unnamed writer say when a reader asks what his biggest losses from the worst years of the AIDS crisis were?
(a) He says he needs to write his response.
(b) He says he does not know.
(c) He says the question is too personal.
(d) He names the names of lost friends.

5. Where was Mina born?
(a) Libya.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Poland.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who translates for her mother in Part I?

2. What does Emma tell Mina some of the younger volunteers do with refugees that shocks Mina?

3. What does the unnamed writer say heels are for him?

4. How does Mina meet Jennifer?

5. Who calls the unnamed writer "sister"?

(see the answer key)

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