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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where is Sanja when she starts feeling her arm hurting and tingling?
2. What is Sem running away from from his chldhood?
3. For writers from what country was Villa Aurora an exile refugee during World War II?
4. In what city is Sanja in the hospital after her stroke?
5. On what street in Las Vegas do Sem and Harun have a tire changed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do they not know how to treat Sanja after her stroke?
2. What does Harun photograph at night, and to what does Sem compare the way that Harun creates photographs?
3. Who does Sem remember seeing outside the hotel when he attended the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1999?
4. What memory of driving in New Mexico does Sem hope that Sanja has not forgotten?
5. What is unusual about the corridor from the elevator to Sem and Sanja's apartment door, and what problems has that caused?
6. What did Sem find interesting about photographs "M" took of their apartment?
7. What form of address has Hraun used for Sem?
8. What type of tennis shoes does Sanja have, and why are those typical of who she is and what she is like?
9. What does Sem tell Sanja is in the hospital when she asks what happened to her?
10. Why did Sanja say she was a smoker when she quit after Sem's heart attack?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Both Sem and Harun’s lives have been affected by trauma. How have Sem and Harun’s lives been affected by trauma? How do they process the trauma they have experienced differently?
Essay Topic 2
Sem decides to take a road trip when he learns about the side effects of a medication he takes. Why does Sem decide to take a road trip? Why is Sem concerned about memory loss? Why does he think memory loss can be the same as death?
Essay Topic 3
Nurses view Sem and his roommate at the hospital as one person. How do the nurses at the hospital see Sem and his roommate as one person? In what way does the hospital erase the men’s identity?
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