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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these did Archie not use to barter for food?
(a) Medals.
(b) Pictures of pin-up girls.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Chocolate.

2. Who saves Archie's life?
(a) Samad Miah Aqbal.
(b) Horst Ibelgaufts.
(c) Mo Hussein-Ishmael.
(d) Tim Westleigh.

3. What loud noise awakens Archie and Samad one morning during their stay in the small village?
(a) Celebrating Russian soldiers.
(b) A car driving into the wall of the building.
(c) Gunfire.
(d) A heavy thunderstorm.

4. Which of these things is not burned in the Iqbals' yard?
(a) Millat's baseball cap.
(b) "The Godfather" movie.
(c) Air Max sneakers.
(d) "The Catcher in the Rye."

5. What delay in Clara's life allows her mother to meet Ryan?
(a) A late bus.
(b) A trip to the drugstore.
(c) A gab session with a girlfriend.
(d) A detention at school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samad win in a poker game?

2. To what does Shiva ascribe Samad's remarkably strong attraction to the teacher?

3. What does Samad take to Poppy at their first meeting outside the school?

4. What game do the older Jamaican men play at O'Connell's?

5. How did Clara actually meet Ryan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes does Clara begin to notice in Ryan after he meets her mother?

2. Why is the place named "O'Connell's"?

3. Describe the difference between Millat and Magid Iqbal.

4. Why does Samad decide to send one of the boys away?

5. How does the Pakistani community react to Magid's having been sent away?

6. Describe O'Connell's Poolroom.

7. How does Kelvin Hero treat Archie?

8. How does Clara's speech change when she is excited?

9. What is Shiva's reaction to Samad's admission that he has fallen for an English woman?

10. What does Samad feel is the secret of his cousin Ardashir's success?

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