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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 does Jude tell Layla when Layla says they are not the kind of girls who glow in the spotlight?

2. What does Sarah say to Jude before they go to meet up with Sarah's friends?

3. What is one of Layla's favorite phrases?

4. What does Jude say to the rude woman at the hospital?

5. What does Jude say when she first comes into the Middle Eastern restaurant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jude choose the song she chooses to sing for her tryout for the play?

2. Why does Layla think Jude is lucky?

3. Why does Jude like Ludlow Avenue so much?

4. What does Jude confront Mama with in Part IV that she is very angry about?

5. How does Jude come to try to forgive Sarah for not being happy for her for getting a role in the play?

6. What does Mama say at the doctor's appointment in Part III that makes the ultrasound technician laugh?

7. Why is Jude growing more concerned about Fatima in Part III?

8. Why does Jude think many Americans do not finish their sentences?

9. Why does Jude get so emotional when she goes to the Middle Eastern restaurant and they serve her food for the first time?

10. What does Sarah tell Jude when Aunt Michelle makes Sarah take Jude sledding with her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How and when does Jude's brother Issa begin to change? What bothers Jude about the changes she sees in her brother early in the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Warga writes "America, like every other place in the world, is a place where some people sleep and some people, other people, dream" (82). Write an essay explaining what you think Warga means with this sentence.

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the reasons only Jude and Mama make the journey to the United States, without the rest of the family? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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