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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What kind of medication does Mina frequently give to the patients in Part IV?
(a) Tranquilizers.
(b) Fibrilators.
(c) NSAIDs.
(d) Linase Inhibitors.
2. Where does Pete Jones eventually do some service work after he is discharged from the army?
(a) Syria.
(b) The Congo.
(c) Guatemala.
(d) Malawi.
3. What upsets Sumaiya about the journalists' questions?
(a) They only ask Sammy questions.
(b) They ask her questions that are too personal.
(c) They ask her questions about her children.
(d) They ask her questions about her job.
4. What event increases anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe that the narrator notes in the chapter "Every Country Gets the Refugees it Deserves"?
(a) The 2018 Hellman incident.
(b) The 2015 Paris attacks.
(c) The 2005 London bombings.
(d) The 2009 Barcelona bombings.
5. Who does Mina tell Asma she has lost and mourned?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her wife.
(c) Her own father.
(d) Her child.
6. What work does Mazen do?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Writing.
(c) Financial management.
(d) Medicine.
7. What smell does the unnamed writer's father say he can smell inexplicably close to his death?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Cardamom.
(c) Humus.
(d) Tumeric.
8. What does the unnamed writer's father put in the dream house he builds?
(a) A book he loves between two bricks.
(b) A piece of lace from his own christening suit.
(c) A written blessing between the first two bricks.
(d) An ounce of gold.
9. When does Mazen send Mina the first picture to try to repair their rift?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1987.
(d) 2000.
10. What topic does Mina note that Francine once wrote a paper about in Part III?
(a) Outsider rage.
(b) Impostor Syndrome.
(c) Flightiness.
(d) Psychosis.
11. Who does Rasheed help immigrate to Europe in the chapter titled "But How Butch Are You"?
(a) Mazen.
(b) Sammy.
(c) Sumaiya.
(d) A gay male couple from Iraq.
12. What is the main unique feature in the writer's father's dream house in Lebanon?
(a) An opal in the stone.
(b) A huge library.
(c) An aviary.
(d) Gold gilding.
13. Who expedites the application of Sumaiya's family for asylum?
(a) Emma.
(b) Mazen.
(c) Riki.
(d) Rasheed.
14. What list does the unnamed writer keep on his person for a while in Part III?
(a) A list of groceries.
(b) A list of people who died in falls from planes.
(c) A list of friends he has lost.
(d) A list of books he likes.
15. Who does Rasheed coach the person or people he helps immigrate to Europe to imitate?
(a) Sting.
(b) Bono.
(c) Beyonce.
(d) Oprah.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a favorite "surgeon" joke of Mina's?
2. In Part IV, what does the old woman steal from a young volunteer?
3. What is one major symptom Sumaiya has that is a clue to her condition that Mina notices?
4. What kind of plant does Lubna encourage Mina to buy in Chicago?
5. What does Mina want to try to convince Sumaiya to let her do early in Part III?
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