Deeply earnest; gloomy or somber; performed with ceremony
What is "solemn?"
100
According to Haileb, the disguised angels were these type of people.
What are vagrants, beggars, and misfits?
100
According to Mawi, this is the mouthpiece of America.
What is TV?
100
Early in the story, Mawi states, "If he could have read his future, my father might have feared the headlights." This is a good example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Mawi's father.
Who is Haileab?
200
Emotion; feeling
What is "sentiment?"
200
Haileb was wealthy in Ethiopa. He owned a pharmacy, general store and this.
What is a clinic?
200
The Asgedom family lived in this suburb.
What is Wheaton?
200
The fact that both Haileb and his son, Tewolde, were able to escape the horrors of famine and war, but were unable to avoid two accidents resulting in their death in America is an example of this literary device.
What is irony?
300
Mawi's older brother who dies in a car accident.
Who is Tewolde?
300
To resolve or settle differences by working with all the conflicting parties.
What is "mediate?"
300
Mawi's birthplace.
What is Adi Wahla.
300
The illegal activity boys and their friends did.
What is stole a parking meter?
300
When Haileb's father died he lived here.
What is a monastery?
400
Mawi's little sister.
Who is Mehret?
400
one who assumes responsibility for another person or a group
What is "sponsor?"
400
The border the Asgedom family crosses to arrive in Awad.
What is Sudanese?
400
The school from which Mawi received a letter offering a full scholarship.
What is Harvard?
400
This person bought track shoes and training spikes for Mawi.
Who is his track coach?
500
Mawi's mother.
Who is Tsege?
500
To be transformed.
What is "morphed?"
500
Mehret was so small, that this picked her up and slammed her to a fence.
What is wind?
500
The person the brothers gave their sandwiches to at the public library.
Who is the dark haired white stranger who was cold and hungry.
500
Tewolde and Mawi worked hard in elementary school, allowing them to graduate from this program and take regular classes full time.