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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Baptize Your Way - The Plunge).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the unnamed writer say when a reader asks what his biggest losses from the worst years of the AIDS crisis were?
(a) He names the names of lost friends.
(b) He says the question is too personal.
(c) He says he needs to write his response.
(d) He says he does not know.

2. What does the unnamed writer's father put in the dream house he builds?
(a) A piece of lace from his own christening suit.
(b) A written blessing between the first two bricks.
(c) An ounce of gold.
(d) A book he loves between two bricks.

3. Who is Emma romantically partnered with in Part I?
(a) Mazen.
(b) Rodrigo.
(c) Sam.
(d) Skelly.

4. What does the unnamed writer say heels are for him?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Purgatory.
(d) Liberation.

5. How do Francine and Mina first meet Lubna?
(a) When she marries their friend Syl.
(b) When she starts working with them.
(c) When she becomes their neighbor.
(d) When she finds them at a book launch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one young child anxious to show his grandmother in Part I, just after they land onshore?

2. Which family friend of Mina's has a relative who is unfairly labeled as a terrorist in the chapter "A Terrorist by Any Other Name is Still a Terrorist"?

3. Where was a famous burial site in Iraq Mina references in Part IV?

4. Why does Samaiya's family ask if Mina is a man?

5. Who led the charge to cut Mina out of the family, according to Mina?

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