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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. Bangladesh is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with what country to the far southeast?
3. What is the name of the white law student whom Taslima dates in "Ask Me No Questions"?
4. Where does the second lawyer hired by the Hossains say it had been a mistake for them to go?
5. Nadira and Aisha discover from their mother that they kept their savings with whom in Section 7: Chapter 9?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Aisha and Nadira learn from their mother in Section 7: Chapter 9? Who approaches, attempting to help?
2. Who accosts Nadira on the bus in Section 5: Chapter 6? What is Nadira's response?
3. What does Tim inform Nadira and Aisha regarding their father at the end of Section 5: Chapter 6?
4. When do Nadira and Aisha return to school in Section 4: Chapter 5? Who first approaches them? Why?
5. How have Nadira's feelings about her sister changed at the end of Section 7: Chapter 9? Why?
6. Where does Nadira go to visit Ali-uncle in Section 4: Chapter 5? How is this character described?
7. What does Nadira think about her sister on the ride back home in Section 3: Chapter 4? What do they talk about?
8. How does Nadira describe the final stretch to the Canadian border in Section 2: Chapter 2?
9. What does Abba's family do once he is taken away in Section 2: Chapter 2? How do they feel?
10. What Partition does Nadira describe in Section 3: Chapter 3? What was its impact on the Bengali people?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the history of Bangladesh, and how this history relates to Nadira's family in the novel. How does Nadira describe the lives of her ancestors? What drove her great-grandparents to Dhaka? What was the principal impetus for Bengalis to immigrate to the United States?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the differences between Nadira and Aisha in regards to their ambitions. What does Nadira want to do when she grows up? For how long has Aisha had her future planned? What is the effect of these differences when the Hossains face obstacles such as deportation?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the settings of the novel and their significance to the novel's plot and themes. How do the descriptions of Bangladesh differ from the setting of Flushing, Queens? How do the Hossains react to the setting of Vermont and Canada? Why?
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