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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic does Mina note that Francine once wrote a paper about in Part III?
(a) Psychosis.
(b) Outsider rage.
(c) Impostor Syndrome.
(d) Flightiness.

2. When does Mazen send Mina the first picture to try to repair their rift?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2000.

3. How is Pete Jones injured in war?
(a) He loses an arm.
(b) He loses part of one leg.
(c) He loses an eye.
(d) He loses three fingers on his right hand.

4. What kind of mess does Mina think that Lesbos is when she arrives?
(a) A supernatural one.
(b) A manageable one.
(c) A somewhat humane one.
(d) A man-made one.

5. Where does the man who worked at the jewelry store say he and his family booked flights to get away from the police?
(a) London.
(b) Istanbul.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Barcelona.

6. Who does Mazen stay with when he gives up his hotel room?
(a) Emma.
(b) Riki.
(c) Mina.
(d) Rasheed.

7. Who does Rasheed coach the person or people he helps immigrate to Europe to imitate?
(a) Bono.
(b) Beyonce.
(c) Sting.
(d) Oprah.

8. Which U.S. president gave a speech Mina disliked in Part IV?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) George W. Bush.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Barack Obama.

9. Why does Mazen give up his hotel room in Part IV?
(a) For people running an animal shelter.
(b) For a sick woman.
(c) For a group of young children.
(d) For a refugee couple on their honeymoon.

10. What did Sumaiya ask Sammy to do if she did not live to cross with him and their daughters?
(a) Bury her body at sea.
(b) Cremate her.
(c) Take her body with them.
(d) Leave her body unburied.

11. Who is one of the first refugees the unnamed writer interviews in Beirut in Part IV?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Mazen.
(c) Hamza.
(d) Riki.

12. In Part IV, who is the only one in Sumaiya's family that Mina tells the truth about Mina's condition to?
(a) Mazen.
(b) Riki.
(c) Asma.
(d) Huma.

13. What request does Asma make to Mina regarding their correspondence in Part IV?
(a) That she stop writing.
(b) That she describe her procedures as she would to any doctor.
(c) That she only write to Asma in Arabic.
(d) That she write more often.

14. What does the old woman in Part IV from Deir ez-Zor tell Mazen?
(a) He seems smart.
(b) He seems stupid.
(c) He seems friendly.
(d) He seems kind.

15. What smell does the unnamed writer's father say he can smell inexplicably close to his death?
(a) Tumeric.
(b) Humus.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Cardamom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mina think Mazen's son looks most like?

2. What work does Mazen do?

3. What does Mina want to try to convince Sumaiya to let her do early in Part III?

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

5. Who made the wings to escape from the island where the Minotaur was born?

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