1. What does INS stand for?
(a) Immigration and Nationalization Service.
(b) Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(c) Immigration and Neutralization Service.
(d) Immigration and Nurturing Service.

2. What means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country?
(a) Negligence.
(b) Deportation.
(c) Incarceration.
(d) Indictment.

3. Aisha does not open what, which arrives in Section 13: Chapter 16?
(a) Her exam grades.
(b) Financial Aid award letters.
(c) College acceptance letters.
(d) Deportation forms.

4. Where does Nadira sit in the playground where Ma brought her and Aisha when they first moved to Queens in Section 13: Chapter 16?
(a) On the slide.
(b) On the monkey bars.
(c) On the swingset.
(d) On a bench.

5. What is the name of Nadira and Aisha's older cousin?
(a) Lily Yee.
(b) Abba.
(c) Taslima.
(d) Tareq.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?

2. Nadira and Aisha discover from their mother that they kept their savings with whom in Section 7: Chapter 9?

3. What does Nadira decide to do at the end of Section 11: Chapter 14?

4. What day do Nadira, Abba and Ma return home from a walk in the park to find an uproar at home in Section 13: Chapter 16?

5. Mr. Rashid hopes the appeal will come through, but otherwise, the Hossains will do what, in Section 13: Chapter 16?

(see the answer key)

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