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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. Who does Emma see the writer talking to, as she tells it to Mina in Part I?
(a) Mazen.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A child.
(d) Nickolaos.

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

3. Where does Mina choose her name?
(a) In Berlin.
(b) In Lesbos.
(c) In London.
(d) In Indonesia.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mina recall meeting the writer unofficially some years earlier?

2. Why does Mina think the orangutan does not attack her in Part II?

3. Who was Mina's first romantic partner?

4. What does Mina buy some children in Part II?

5. Where is the unnamed writer when he tries on a dress for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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