Historical context
This is the name of the genocide that led to mass numbers of Jewish people leaving Europe for the Middle East after World War II.
What is "The Holocaust?"
This is the name of the city where Said and Safiyya lived after they left Haifa
What is "Ramallah?"
This is the name of Miriam's husband
This is the name of the literary device that uses repetition of an image (like water in Ch. 1)
What is "motif?"
Said is referred to as "Abu Khalid." "Abu" means this word in Arabic
What is "father?"
This is the name of the political movement that encouraged Jewish people living in Europe to emigrate to Palestine
What is "Zionism?"
This is the name of the neighborhood in Haifa where Said and Safiyya lived
What is "Halisa?"
This is the name of Faris al-Lubda's brother
What is "Badr?"
This is the name of the literary device where an author uses a secondary character to help develop the main character through contrast
What is "foil?"
Safiyya is referred to as "Umm Khalid." "Umm" means this word in Arabic.
What is "mother?"
This event happened on April 21st, 1948
What is "The Battle of Haifa?"
This is the name of the city where Faris al-Lubda lived before he was forced to leave
What is "Jaffa?"
This is the name of Said and Safiyya's downstairs neighbor, the man who lived on the first floor of the house they lived in
Who is "Mahjub es-Saadi?"
What literary device is being used in the following quote?
"Instead, [the memory] rained down inside his head the way a stone wall collapses, the stones piling up, one upon another."
What is "metaphor?"
Faris al-Ludba is referred as "Ibn al-Lubda." "Ibn" means this word in Arabic.
What is "son?"
This is the country that controlled Palestine between World War 1 and 1948
What is "Britain?" (will accept England or UK or United Kingdom)
This is the country where Miriam and Iphrat used to live before coming to Haifa
What is "Poland?"
This is the name of the woman who lived upstairs from Said and Safiyya who found Khaldun in his crib
Who is "Tura Zonshtein?"
What is the literary device in the following quote?
"He felt his forehead catch fire, exactly like the burning asphalt beneath the car's wheels"
What is "simile?"
Said's name means this in Arabic
What is "joy?"
What is "The 6-day War?"
This is the city where Miriam and Iphrat got on a ship to go to Haifa
What is "Milan?"
This is the person who worked at the Jewish agency and helped Iphrat and Miriam rent Said and Safiyya's house
Who is the chicken-faced man?
What is the literary device being used in the following quote?
"Above him the sun, the terrible June sun, spilled the tar of its anger upon the earth"
What is "personification"
This is the Arabic word that is translated as "cause" in the repeated phrase in chapter 5, "Man is a cause"
What is "qadiyya?"