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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 Zeitoun use for light at night during the flood?
(a) A flashlight.
(b) Candles.
(c) His cell phone.
(d) Gas lamps.

2. What did Zeitoun use for fishing as a child?
(a) Poles.
(b) All of these.
(c) Nets.
(d) Spears.

3. Where does Zeitoun sleep when his bed won't do during the storm?
(a) The bathtub.
(b) The roof.
(c) A hotel.
(d) The couch.

4. How does Zeitoun save special items from the flood?
(a) He puts them in a time capsule.
(b) He moves them to the basement.
(c) He carries them to the second floor.
(d) He loads them in the canoe.

5. Why does Zeitoun go by his last name?
(a) His buddies always called him that.
(b) His name changed when he migrated.
(c) His first is hard to pronounce.
(d) He shares his father's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ahmad from?

2. How much older than his wife is Zeitoun?

3. How old is Zachary at the beginning of the book?

4. What is Frank desperate for when Zeitoun sees him?

5. What kind of fish did Zeitoun fish for as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes it hard for Zeitoun to sleep at night after the second day of the flood?

2. Why does Zeitoun not check out his office when he originally plans?

3. What does Zeitoun plan to do after his family evacuates?

4. What is a hijab?

5. What surprises Zeitoun when he gets to the Tulane campus?

6. Why did the mayor tell citizens to be armed with an axe if they did not evacuate?

7. Where does Zeitoun get some MREs, and what does he do with them?

8. What is the contraflow?

9. How did Zeitoun's relationship with his wife progress when they first met?

10. What drove Kathy away from Christianity?

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