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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Khosrove described physically?
(a) Large with wild hair.
(b) Enormous with black hair.
(c) Gigantic with light brown hair.
(d) Humungous with gray hair.

2. What happens to Aram after just a short time of riding the horse?
(a) He falls off.
(b) He gets the hang of it.
(c) He rides better than Mourad.
(d) He steers the horse toward his house.

3. What words is used to describe the way most people in Aram's family view Mourad?
(a) Intelligent.
(b) Crazy.
(c) Volatile.
(d) Eccentric.

4. What does Mourad tell Aram to do after they had been riding the horse for a little while?
(a) He feeds the horse.
(b) He returns the horse.
(c) He takes Aram home.
(d) He tells him to get off the horse.

5. What street does Arame live on?
(a) Hazelnut St.
(b) Pecan St.
(c) Almond St.
(d) Walnut St.

6. What does the narrator say the world was filled with at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?
(a) Sunlight and green pastures.
(b) Every wonder available to man.
(c) Every imaginable kind of magnificent.
(d) Open fields and endless dreams.

7. Who wrote "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?
(a) Mourad Saroyan.
(b) Aram Mourad.
(c) William Saroyan.
(d) Saroyan Arak.

8. What is Aram's cousin's name?
(a) Arak.
(b) Khosrove.
(c) Maron.
(d) Mourad.

9. What is Aram's family name?
(a) Garoghlanaian.
(b) Gertmenian.
(c) Georgyan.
(d) Gashgaryan.

10. How does the narrator describe the time period when the story takes place?
(a) The days of my youth.
(b) The good old days.
(c) The days of yore.
(d) The olden days.

11. What is happening just as Mourad returns to Aram?
(a) It becomes very windy.
(b) The sun is setting.
(c) The sun is rising.
(d) It is starting to rain.

12. What word does Aram use at times when discussing his family?
(a) Crew.
(b) Tribe.
(c) Clan.
(d) Flock.

13. What adjective is used to describe Khosrove's hair?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Wild.
(c) Whispy.
(d) Short.

14. How does Aram's cousin wake him up at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?
(a) By pulling his blankets off of him.
(b) By yelling in his year.
(c) By ringing his doorbell.
(d) By tapping his window.

15. What time does the narrator's cousin arrive at his home at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?
(a) 4 a.m.
(b) 4 p.m.
(c) 5 p.m.
(d) 5 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Khosrove when his son runs to tell him some urgent news?

2. What language does Mourad speak to Aram at the start of "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse"?

3. How is Mourad's father described?

4. What does Aram feel sure of about his family when he wonders how Mourad got the horse?

5. What does Aram say Mourad was considered the natural descendant of?

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