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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 the unnamed writer listen to when he is very depressed in Part IV?
(a) Classic rock.
(b) Punk rock.
(c) Opera.
(d) Country music.

2. What does the unnamed writer want to know from Nikolaos about a mass drowning incident his ancestors were involved in?
(a) Who was the Turkish Prime minister back then.
(b) How many trees were killed during the incident.
(c) What songs the Turks played while many Greeks were drowning.
(d) How many people died.

3. Where was a famous burial site in Iraq Mina references in Part IV?
(a) The Cave of Shanidar.
(b) The Valley of Riki.
(c) The Reef of Ili.
(d) The Plain of Shani.

4. Where does the stranger in the chapter "How to Rob an Armenian Jewelry Store" say he is originally from?
(a) Lebanon.
(b) Syria.
(c) Greece.
(d) Spain.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was one major reason Sammy says his family had to leave Syria?

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

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

5. What does the NGO frequently give to families in the refugee camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mina's and Mazen's blood pact work?

2. What particular topic does Mina remember Francine having written about in 2009?

3. What destroys the writer's family home in Lebanon eventually?

4. In Part III, how does Mina's mother react after the car accident in her childhood?

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

6. What does Mina think of George W. Bush's post-9/11 speech?

7. What does Rasheed say Mina should wear so the women in the refugee camp will trust her more?

8. What can Mina not help thinking about women from Deir-ez-Zor?

9. What incidents does the writer compare to the myth of Icarus?

10. What does Mina really think of the man who says he worked for a jewler?

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