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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. How does Saeed's mother die in Chapter 4?
(a) Round through windshield of the car.
(b) Street bomb.
(c) Mugged and stabbed to death.
(d) Caught in street fighting.

2. In Chapter 1, what does Saeed pick up for dinner after work?
(a) Fish.
(b) Pasta.
(c) Fresh vegetables.
(d) Bread.

3. Where does Nadia live in Chapter 2?
(a) Small house.
(b) A room atop the house of a widow.
(c) With her parents.
(d) 4-story apartment building.

4. In Chapter 2, when did the man who was in the bar nursing a drink remember beating a half-Filipino boy?
(a) 6th grade.
(b) 5th grade.
(c) Junior high.
(d) High school.

5. In Chapter 2, where is a young man nursing a drink he has not paid for?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Shanghai.
(d) Tokyo.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what merchants disappear that Saeed's mother knew?

2. In Chapter 3, how long after independence did telephone lines remain a rare thing?

3. In Chapter 3, what do militants take over at the same time that Nadia signs for a package of foodstuffs?

4. In Chapter 3, how much time will pass before a local man with a ponytail who offers ingredients for chefs and epicures be beheaded?

5. In Chapter 3, the first Friday after a curfew is imposed, what does Saeed pray for?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what happens to Saeed's mother?

2. In Chapter 5, why is Saeed grateful that Nadia is with him and his father?

3. At the end of Chapter 3, what is switched off and how does that affect Nadia, Saeed, and others in the city?

4. Where would Nadia and Saeed like to travel and why?

5. What is said about Nadia and school at the beginning of Chapter 2?

6. What has Nadia's relationship been like with her family?

7. How is the place described where Saeed lives with his parents?

8. In Chapter 5, how are funerals different than they were before the fighting?

9. In Chapter 1, when Saeed asks Nadia to coffee, how much fighting has the city seen where they live?

10. How did Saeed's parents meet?

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