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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mazen say about Mina's driving skills in Part III?
(a) He says she is a competent driver.
(b) He says she is a terrible driver.
(c) He says he is surprised she ever learned to drive.
(d) He says whoever taught her to drive must be a genius, because it was him.

2. Where does Pete Jones eventually do some service work after he is discharged from the army?
(a) Syria.
(b) Guatemala.
(c) The Congo.
(d) Malawi.

3. What kind of mess does Mina think Lesbos becomes shortly after she leaves?
(a) A supernatural one.
(b) An unalterable one.
(c) An inhumane one.
(d) A man-made one.

4. What work does Mazen do?
(a) Financial management.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Writing.

5. What is Morty's full name?
(a) Mortadda Mohammad Abdullah.
(b) Mortonson James.
(c) Morton Henry.
(d) Fabrila Mortonson.

6. What does Mina's mother say to her after the car accident?
(a) She will take her for ice cream.
(b) Refuses to go to the hospital.
(c) She is moving out of the house.
(d) Tells Mina it was her fault.

7. What kind of car did Mina want to buy?
(a) A Corvette.
(b) A Toyota.
(c) A Maserati.
(d) A Jaguar.

8. What topic does Mina note that Francine once wrote a paper about in Part III?
(a) Flightiness.
(b) Psychosis.
(c) Outsider rage.
(d) Impostor Syndrome.

9. Who does Mina tell Asma she has lost and mourned?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her own father.
(c) Her wife.
(d) Her child.

10. Where does Mina meet Mazen in Part III for the first time?
(a) Mytilene.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Barcelona.
(d) Skira Skira.

11. What upsets Sumaiya about the journalists' questions?
(a) They ask her questions about her children.
(b) They ask her questions that are too personal.
(c) They only ask Sammy questions.
(d) They ask her questions about her job.

12. Who does Rasheed help immigrate to Europe in the chapter titled "But How Butch Are You"?
(a) Sumaiya.
(b) Sammy.
(c) Mazen.
(d) A gay male couple from Iraq.

13. Which nationality is the interpreter who works with Sammy and Sumaiya in Part III?
(a) American.
(b) Dutch.
(c) Lebanese.
(d) Spanish.

14. What is the first sentence Mina writes in her correspondence to Mazen to help repair their relationship in Part III?
(a) I need you.
(b) All my love always.
(c) I forgive you and hope you forgive me.
(d) I have never stopped missing you.

15. Where was a famous burial site in Iraq Mina references in Part IV?
(a) The Plain of Shani.
(b) The Reef of Ili.
(c) The Valley of Riki.
(d) The Cave of Shanidar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Emma ask the two journalists to leave in Part III?

2. What kind of plant does Lubna encourage Mina to buy in Chicago?

3. What is a favorite "surgeon" joke of Mina's?

4. Who does Mina think Mazen's son looks most like?

5. What list does the unnamed writer keep on his person for a while in Part III?

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