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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 13: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What location in New York Harbor was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States?
(a) Hamilton Island.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) Golden Gate Bay.
(d) Alexander Island.

2. Nadira's father told her she could get through anything as long as she knows how to what, as revealed in Section 11: Chapter 13?
(a) Breathe.
(b) Cry.
(c) Fight.
(d) Lie.

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

4. When Nadira meets Aisha after her interview at Barnard College, Aisha is doing what by the front gate in Section 10: Chapter 12?
(a) Calling her mother.
(b) Singing.
(c) Vomiting.
(d) Crying.

5. Uncle is furious because Aisha has helped who run away in Section 13: Chapter 16?
(a) Nadira.
(b) Lily Yee.
(c) Abba.
(d) Taslima.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Nadira and Aisha get to write a letter about Abba in Section 7: Chapter 9?

2. 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?

3. Where are Uncle and Auntie planning to return in Section 13: Chapter 16?

4. According to the narrator, Ma's spirits lifted after Abba got cable because she loves watching what?

5. Uncle and Auntie had called Ma to tell her that Nadira had what, in the beginning of Section 12: Chapter 15?

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