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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 helps Kathy to stay calm as long as she does?
(a) Her children.
(b) Her connection to Zeitoun.
(c) Her faith.
(d) Her illness.

2. What shocks Kathy about the image she sees of her house?
(a) The blood on the roof.
(b) How peaceful it looks.
(c) The floating body.
(d) The gross water.

3. How many men break into Zeitoun's house?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

4. What mean name does a soldier call Zeitoun at the bus terminal?
(a) Assassin.
(b) Taliban.
(c) Terrorist.
(d) Intruder.

5. What keeps Ahmad semi-calm while Zeitoun is missing?
(a) He prays.
(b) He raises money for the relief efforts.
(c) He works overtime shifts.
(d) He calls Kathy every day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the mayor to cancel the reopening of the city?

2. Who takes Zeitoun's missing the worst?

3. Where does Nasser say he got what is found in his bag during processing?

4. How does Kathy cheer her daughters up during the flood?

5. What does Kathy do when her kids are in school the first day?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kathy hear where her husband has been?

2. What keeps Kathy from going home like she wanted to?

3. What deal are the men in the cell with Zeitoun offered?

4. What happens just after Kathy and her daughter say a prayer in the living?

5. What gives Kathy comfort while her husband is missing?

6. What does Kathy do when she is not told where her husband's trial will be held?

7. What causes the mayor to delay the reopening of the city?

8. What makes Kathy decide to put her kids in a school in Phoenix?

9. Why don't Zeitoun and Nasser talk much while in their cell?

10. What were some of the people incarcerated with Zeitoun arrested for?

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