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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. Why does Behrani believe that it is immigrants who excel in the United States?
(a) They are more intelligent.
(b) They know opportunity when they see it.
(c) They have more help from the government.
(d) They have support from affirmative action.

2. What lie does Behrani tell Esmail when he explains how Kathy lost the house?
(a) That Kathy is crazy.
(b) That Kathy lost the house because she didn't pay her taxes.
(c) That they will move back to the apartment.
(d) That they are going home to Iran soon.

3. Who does Nadereh think Kathy is when she first meets her?
(a) A panhandler.
(b) The carpenter's girlfriend.
(c) A missionary.
(d) A visiting neighbor.

4. How does Behrani learn that Kathy came to the house?
(a) His wife tells him
(b) The carpenters tell him.
(c) He finds the blood on the board with the nails.
(d) Esmail tells him.

5. Who owns half of Kathy's house?
(a) The county of San Mateo.
(b) Her brother Frank.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her husband Nick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the letter from Connie Walsh advise the Behranis to do?

2. Why does Esmail become angry with his father?

3. Why does Nadereh sometimes go to bed for hours or days?

4. Why does Lester believe Behrani can't report him to the police?

5. Where do Kathy and Lester spend the night together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Kathy's Enemy Voice the last time she spends time with a married man?

2. Do you think Lester's advice to Kathy when he helps her after the eviction is correct?

3. Why does Behrani feel that Soraya is right to disrespect him when he notices her behavior during her homecoming party?

4. What is Kathy's intention in calling her brother Frank, and why doesn't she do as she intended?

5. Why is Kathy surprised when the officers come to evict her from her home?

6. What do you make of the fact that Kathy counts and itemizes all the kinds of alcohol in her client's house?

7. What does Esmail advise his father to do after Lester's threatening visit?

8. How does Kathy feel about her drinking when she is in the motel with Lester, and why is it important to the story?

9. Why is Behrani quitting both his jobs?

10. Why does Behrani regret that he will soon sell the house?

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