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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A House in the Woods, and A Vacation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the fortune teller tell Zahra in Chapter 5?
(a) Her husband will divorce her.
(b) She will die soon.
(c) Relief is coming.
(d) She will become pregnant.

2. What month is "A Vacation" set in?
(a) November.
(b) June.
(c) December.
(d) April.

3. In Chapter 5, who does Zahra visit in Casablanca?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Safia.
(c) Her mother-in-law.
(d) Faqih and Roukia.

4. Who is Safia?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A wife of a nationalist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A German guard.

5. What does the reader learn in Chapter 1 about Zahra's family?
(a) They live in jail.
(b) They are politicians.
(c) They are wealthy.
(d) Her close family members are dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Zahra and Faqih travel to Souk al-Arba?

2. What did Zahra see in Rahman's home?

3. What language was "Year of the Elephant" first written in?

4. Who helped Zahra decide to join the Moroccan resistance movement?

5. Whose perspective is "Year of the Elephant" from?

(see the answer key)

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