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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. Who do Nadira and Aisha get to write a letter about Abba in Section 7: Chapter 9?
(a) His father.
(b) His boss.
(c) His case worker.
(d) A police officer.

2. Aisha and Nadira map out their argument for writing the new director of immigration and who, pleading for special circumstances in Section 7: Chapter 9?
(a) The President.
(b) The Bengali Ambassador.
(c) Their congressman.
(d) Their lawyer.

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

4. What is a person, team, company, or other organization competing against another person or team, etc.?
(a) Rival.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Protagonist.
(d) Comrade.

5. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Obstacle.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Catalyst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What village in Bangladesh did Nadira's great-grandparents eventually settle in?

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

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

4. Bangladesh is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with what country to the far southeast?

5. Nadira and Aisha discover from their mother that they kept their savings with whom in Section 7: Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nadira describe Aisha's integration into American society and culture in Section 3: Chapter 4?

3. What does Tim inform Nadira and Aisha regarding their father at the end of Section 5: Chapter 6?

4. What does Nadira think about her sister on the ride back home in Section 3: Chapter 4? What do they talk about?

5. What interaction does Nadira have with her sister at school in Section 5: Chapter 6? How does she feel about it?

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

7. Where does Aisha take Nadira in Section 6: Chapter 8? Why?

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

9. What caused the Hossains to seek asylum in Canada in Section 1: Chapter 1?

10. What argument does Nadira have with Uncle in Section 5: Chapter 6? What excuse does Auntie give?

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