Chapters 1-3

Reading Check

1. Doaa’s husband has died. (Chapter 1)

2. She needs to rescue two young girls. (Chapter 1)

3. She nearly drowned when she was six. (Chapter 1)

4. A severe drought (Chapter 1)

5. They hope a new wife will give him a son. (Chapter 1)

6. To the communal family house (Chapter 2)

7. The rooftop (Chapter 2)

8. To attempt to root out the terrorists (Chapter 3)

9. A group of demonstrators who fight the Syrian government (Chapter 3)

10. Leave Syria (Chapter 3)

Short Answer

1. He is an Alawite Muslim with a Sunni Muslim wife and has a western education. (Chapter 1)

2. He used emergency powers for 48 years and dealt with challenges in a brutal fashion. (Chapter 1)

3. The people dislike the oppression under Bashar al-Assad’s father, there was civil unrest due to drought, the Tunisian protest, and the people were inspired by the overturning of other governments in the Middle East. (Various Chapters)

4. They arrest those who graffiti protests on the walls and torture them, they shoot tear gas and water cannons into crowds of protesters, and they open fire on four people in one of the demonstrations.