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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. What color are Mohammed's eyes?
2. What is the name of Afra's and Nuri's son?
3. What color is Afra's hair in Chapter 1?
4. How old was Mustafa when his mother died?
5. What does Nuri think it is difficult getting used to in this foreign country, the United Kingdom?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does it take Nuri so long to leave Aleppo after the violence begins there?
2. What does Mustafa routinely threaten his young son Firas with in Part I?
3. What does Nuri occasionally bring Afra in an effort to keep the emotional connection between them?
4. In Part II, why is it so hard for Nuri to see that he can still make Afra a little bit happy?
5. What does Mustafa determine as the cause of death of his son, Firas?
6. What does the Moroccan man at the bed and breakfast routinely hold and swing from his hands that Nuri notices?
7. Who does Nuri begin to see appearing in the garden of the bed and breakfast in Part I and why is this so extraordinary?
8. How does Nuri describe how Afra was before the war?
9. What does the smuggler tell everyone in Part II to do as they cross the sea?
10. In Part II, what does Mustafa tell Nuri has been complicated about his own journey out of Syria on his way to England?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What parallels can you draw between the wingless bee in the garden of the bed and breakfast in England and Nuri? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What does Angeliki's behavior, stories, and demeanor reveal about her life experiences and her time in the refugee camps? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Afra Ibrahim's art is so special and moving to people, even the pieces she does after she loses her eyesight? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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