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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: The Mind, “Four Minutes” - “Jameelah’s Story”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom is the epigraph of the novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World attributed?
(a) Louis Pasteur.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Marie Curie.
(d) Albert Einstein.

2. What is the name of Leila's biological mother?
(a) Sinan.
(b) Jameelah.
(c) Binnaz.
(d) Suzan.

3. In "Five Minutes," Leila recalls gaining what kind of family member at the age of 7?
(a) A sister.
(b) A nephew.
(c) A brother.
(d) A niece.

4. In what type of periodical did Leila and Sinan first see a hula hoop?
(a) A pamphlet.
(b) A book.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A magazine.

5. In what year did Binnaz's brother return from fighting in the Korean War?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1957.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Binnaz began to have one miscarriage after another, the family elders reminded Haroun that the Qur'an says a man can have how many wives?

2. In "Six Minutes," Leila recalls attending the wedding of which character and his bride?

3. The first memory that comes to Leila's mind in the first minute after her death has to do with what substance?

4. After young Sinan's father died, he harbored "a nagging suspicion that, no matter how hard he tried and how much he changed, he would always" (77) commit what action toward his mother?

5. The narrator states that Leila's only brother would have been diagnosed years later as having which condition?

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