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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the area so uncomfortable during the flood?

2. What does Zeitoun's wife think about the news reports about Katrina?

3. Why does Zeitoun refuse to leave during the flood?

4. Why can't Zeitoun sleep in his bed during the flood?

5. What did Zeitoun use for fishing as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Zeitoun get some MREs, and what does he do with them?

2. What is a hijab?

3. What warning does Ahmed give Zeitoun about Katrina?

4. What is Kathy dreading about the evacuation?

5. What is the contraflow?

6. What does Zeitoun plan to do after his family evacuates?

7. What surprises Zeitoun when he gets to the Tulane campus?

8. What makes Zeitoun feel nervous the night after the storm?

9. What does Alvin ask Zeitoun to do for him?

10. Why does Zeitoun tell Kathy he can't leave New Orleans at the beginning of the flood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in this book had their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.

Essay Topic 2

How does knowing that Hurricane Katrina was a real historical event change the way you view this book and the events in it?

Essay Topic 3

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in "Zeitoun"?

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