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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (My Mother and the Can Opener - Trans Tiresias and the Great Goddesses).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Samaiya's family ask if Mina is a man?
(a) They knew a doctor who dressed in drag so he could visit female patients.
(b) They think she is a man in drag.
(c) They trust male doctors more.
(d) They can not believe a woman would be a doctor.

2. Where did Mina's father often hunt?
(a) Damascus.
(b) Angkor Waat.
(c) Homs.
(d) Dei-ez-Zor.

3. What is one of the first things volunteers give the refugees?
(a) Books.
(b) Painkillers.
(c) Money.
(d) Foil blankets.

4. Why did both Mina and the writer leave home at first?
(a) To get an education.
(b) Because of war.
(c) To follow a lover.
(d) To make their parents happy.

5. What does a young blonde volunteer scream at on the beach in Part II?
(a) A gun.
(b) A crab.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A shark.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rania Kassem finally begin to find herself again after losing her way?

2. How does Mina think the writer's family feels about him?

3. Where did Mina and Mazen first meet after her estrangement from the family?

4. What does Emma tell Mina some of the younger volunteers do with refugees that shocks Mina?

5. Why does a friend of Rania Kassem's insist she leave the camp in the end of the section titled "How to Become a Westerner"?

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