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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nazneen plans to tell Chanu:
(a) she will disappear before he leaves
(b) an hour before he is to leave for the airport
(c) at the airport
(d) the night before

2. How does Nazneen travel to meet Karim:
(a) tube
(b) bicycle
(c) taxi
(d) trolley

3. Where Chanu says he will talk to her employer about Nazneen receiving more money, Nazneen:
(a) says it will do no good
(b) does not want Chanu to talk to him
(c) says she's lucky she has work
(d) says she already asked and was refused

4. During this time, Karim is:
(a) seeing another woman
(b) out of town
(c) busy organizing a Bengal Tiger march
(d) working long hours

5. When Raiza mentions Karim, what does Nazneen say?
(a) she denies the affair
(b) she refuses to discuss the subject
(c) she says she is in love with him
(d) she says the lines she has rehearsed

6. What does Raiza tell Nazneen that Tariq has done?
(a) sold the furniture
(b) is in the hospital
(c) in in jail for theft
(d) run away

7. Chanu says that Nazneen had:
(a) epilepsy
(b) nervous breakdown
(c) nervous exhaustion
(d) pneumonia

8. Hasina's secret concerns:
(a) why she hated her father
(b) whawt the men of the village did to her
(c) whyhshe hated her mother
(d) what their mother did before she died

9. When Nazneen confronts Chanu about the money from Dr. Azad, she finds:
(a) there was no such money
(b) they leave for Bangladesh in five days
(c) Chanu is going without her
(d) Mrs. Islam was lying

10. Nazneen's affair with Karim is:
(a) known to Chanu
(b) still going on
(c) over
(d) known to Mrs. Islam

11. After the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Chanu:
(a) wants to send Bibi and Shahana away
(b) wants to mvoe out of the city
(c) makes the move to Bangladesh a top priority
(d) says Bangladesh will not be safe

12. Nazneen tells Karim that she:
(a) wnts to marry him
(b) doesn't want to marry him
(c) has nothing to say
(d) is going with Chanu

13. Why does Nazneen attend the meeting at the mosque?
(a) she feels it is her duty as a muslim
(b) she is angry at Chanu
(c) she has nothing else to do at the time
(d) she goes in Chanu's place

14. What does Chanu do after having been in England for almost thirty years?
(a) applies for citizenship
(b) applies for benefits
(c) allows his girls to wear Western style clothing
(d) takes the family sightseeing

15. Wher does Chanu send an email to inquiring about a job?
(a) Harvard University
(b) Open University
(c) The Foreign Office
(d) Dhaka University

Short Answer Questions

1. When Karim arrives with a load of jeans, they:

2. When Nazneen is sick, Dr. Azad recommends:

3. Hasina talks of her day beginning with:

4. Shahana has begun to:

5. Nazneen gets Mrs. Islam to forgive their debt by:

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