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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mazen do when Mina's mother reacts badly in the chapter titled "How Not to Treat Your Child After an Accident"?
(a) Moves closer to Mina to comfort her.
(b) Feeds Mina.
(c) Loans Mina his favorite book.
(d) Shuns Mina.

2. What do the journalists say that makes Mazen really lose his temper?
(a) Refugees can find other ways to make money besides sex work.
(b) Mazen looks dirty.
(c) Not all refugees really love their daughters.
(d) Sammy never really had to leave his home country.

3. Who does Mina tell Asma she has lost and mourned?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her own father.
(c) Her wife.
(d) Her child.

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

5. What was one major reason Sammy says his family had to leave Syria?
(a) His 10-year-old daughter was being forced into marriage.
(b) He had been marked for execution.
(c) Their house had been bombed.
(d) He had run out of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sammy say happened to him in jail in Syria?

2. Who does Rasheed coach the person or people he helps immigrate to Europe to imitate?

3. What kind of shipping container does Mina meet patients in in Part IV?

4. What does Sumaiya say she likes about Mina's appearance in Part III?

5. How many marines are killed in Beirut in the 1980s?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mazen get so mad at the western journalists' questioning of Sammy and Samaiya?

2. What affliction does one woman tell Mina she has in Part IV that Mina can find no physical cause for?

3. In Part IV, what does Mina realize about the economic situations of the refugees she sees in the camps?

4. What is the jewel in the dream house the writer's father built in Lebanon?

5. What does Mina know happened to Lesbos and the refugee situation there after she left?

6. What does the scent of cardamom mean to Mina and the writer?

7. What happened to Linda Abdullah's father at the end of his life?

8. What happens in Cologne on New Year's Eve that impacts Europe's attitudes towards refugees?

9. Who is Sumaiya most worried about in her family for after she dies?

10. How did Rasheed help two Iraqi gay men get settled in Europe?

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