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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Abba send his daughters when he is detained for having an expired visa in Section 2: Chapter 2?
(a) Uncle and Auntie's apartment.
(b) Back to Minnesota.
(c) Back to Bangladesh.
(d) Into Montreal.

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?
(a) Irony.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Catalyst.
(d) Conflict.

3. Nadira and Aisha learn that Abba saved how much money for their college tuition secretly in Section 7: Chapter 9?
(a) $1,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $3,000.
(d) $10,000.

4. Nadira's family is driving where to seek asylum in the beginning of the book?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) The United States.
(d) Mexico.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Abba's older brother which Nadira describes in Section 6: Chapter 7?

2. What school counselor informs Aisha that he has arranged a college interview for her in Section 4: Chapter 5?

3. When Abba is detained for having an expired visa, he is told that what proceedings would likely begin in Section 2: Chapter 2?

4. After what year did the Federal government, rather than the individual states, begin regulating immigration into the United States?

5. Nadira often helps who in his newspaper store after school?

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