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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Nadira and Aisha go to help Ma buy a coat in Section 2: Chapter 2?
(a) Burlington Coat Factory.
(b) Wal-Mart.
(c) The Salvation Army.
(d) Macy's.

2. What is a federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, and enforcing U.S. regulations, including trade, customs and immigration?
(a) IATSA.
(b) ICE.
(c) CBP.
(d) The USCIS.

3. Along what border does Nadira's hope to stop and apply for asylum in Section 2: Chapter 2?
(a) California/Mexico.
(b) North Dakota/Canada.
(c) New York/Canada.
(d) Vermont/Canada.

4. Who approaches and offers to help get a fake green card for Abba in Section 7: Chapter 9?
(a) Ali-uncle.
(b) Taslima.
(c) Mr. Rashid.
(d) Tareq.

5. When Abba is detained for having an expired visa, he is told that what proceedings would likely begin in Section 2: Chapter 2?
(a) Deportation proceedings.
(b) Importation proceedings.
(c) Capital punishment proceedings.
(d) Fraud proceedings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Nadira's older sister?

2. Nadira's older sister cries as the family passes through Boston because she has always wanted to do what?

3. What nation divided Bengal in half in an act called Partition?

4. In what grade was Aisha when she decided which clique of girls she wanted to befriend and begged Ma to buy her the same clothes, according to the narrator?

5. What is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who accosts Nadira on the bus in Section 5: Chapter 6? What is Nadira's response?

2. What does Abba tell the border officer in Section 2: Chapter 2? What does the officer respond?

3. What does Nadira relate of her sense of moral goodness in Section 6: Chapter 7? How does she relate this to her ancestry?

4. How have Nadira's feelings about her sister changed at the end of Section 7: Chapter 9? Why?

5. How does Nadira feel about her sister? How does she describe Aisha in Section 1: Chapter 1?

6. How does Nadira describe the final stretch to the Canadian border in Section 2: Chapter 2?

7. What does Abba's family do once he is taken away in Section 2: Chapter 2? How do they feel?

8. What does Nadira say her father has taught her about morality in America in Section 6: Chapter 7?

9. Why does Nadira seek her sister out at school in Section 7: Chapter 9? Where do they go after school?

10. What scene does Aisha make publicly in Section 6: Chapter 8? Why?

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