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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of rental car does Emma drive in Part II?
(a) Subaru.
(b) Honda.
(c) Mazda.
(d) Hyundai.

2. Who calls the unnamed writer "sister"?
(a) Mira.
(b) Mina.
(c) Helen.
(d) Celso.

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

4. What is one of the first things Mina and the others help Sumaiya and her family do?
(a) Cook food.
(b) Open a bank account.
(c) Get a hotel.
(d) Register with the police.

5. 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 the question is too personal.
(b) He says he needs to write his response.
(c) He says he does not know.
(d) He names the names of lost friends.

6. What does GoFundMeJeff do that makes him infamous?
(a) Eats dinner on the beach.
(b) Buys a boat with refugees' money.
(c) Buys a plane for himself with refugees' money.
(d) Ask for donations online to serve refugees, but then steals the money.

7. Why did both Mina and the writer leave home at first?
(a) To follow a lover.
(b) To get an education.
(c) To make their parents happy.
(d) Because of war.

8. Who first sees the unnamed writer in Greece?
(a) Emma.
(b) Francine.
(c) Mina's mother.
(d) Mazen.

9. What did Mina's mother spend all the spare money on when Mina was a child?
(a) Paints.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Dresses for herself.

10. Why does seeing the writer frightened and battered in Moria feel disorienting to Mina?
(a) She is used to seeing him only in America.
(b) She is used to seeing him acting in an authoritative way.
(c) She is used to seeing him solid and confident.
(d) She is used to seeing him in a restaurant.

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

12. Who taught Mina how to drive originally?
(a) Her mother.
(b) An instructor.
(c) Mazen.
(d) Her father.

13. Who led the charge to cut Mina out of the family, according to Mina?
(a) Firas and her father.
(b) Firas and Aida.
(c) Aida and Mazen.
(d) Her father and Mazen.

14. What does Mina buy some children in Part II?
(a) Chocolate bars.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Ham sandwiches.
(d) Pasta.

15. How does Mina think the writer's family feels about him?
(a) They adore him.
(b) He has no family left.
(c) They are indifferent to him.
(d) The despise him.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. Who was Mina's first romantic partner?

3. What did the writer produce essays about in 2012 and 2013?

4. What was Mina's birth name?

5. Who translates for her mother in Part I?

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