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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 Kathy tease Zeitoun about when she hears about the flood?
(a) He told her to come home.
(b) He gets to play at the lake.
(c) He can't swim.
(d) He didn't renew the flood insurance.

2. Why is Zeitoun getting more work than normal at the beginning of the book?
(a) The holiday season is coming.
(b) His just graduated.
(c) A hurricane is coming.
(d) He has more time.

3. When does Zeitoun's wife hear the warnings about Katrina?
(a) While she is on the bus.
(b) While she is driving.
(c) While she is preparing dinner.
(d) While she is at work.

4. How does Zeitoun figure out there the extra water is coming from after the storm?
(a) He watches the heavy rain fall.
(b) He sees it flowing from the north.
(c) He sees that it is not salt water.
(d) He sees that it have reeds in it.

5. What is the elderly couple in the neighborhood doing to get attention?
(a) Waving a white sheet.
(b) Shooting up flares.
(c) Playing loud music.
(d) Shouting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zeitoun save special items from the flood?

2. What does Kathy want saved from the flood?

3. How many tenants does Zeitoun have?

4. How old was Zeitoun's wife when he met her?

5. When did Zeitoun forget about his daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What drove Kathy away from Christianity?

2. How does Zeitoun prepare for the predicted flooding?

3. What is Kathy dreading about the evacuation?

4. What is a hijab?

5. What favor does Todd do for Zeitoun?

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 does Zeitoun do when he hears about a bloated body?

9. What does Alvin ask Zeitoun to do for him?

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

(see the answer keys)

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