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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shahana ask Chanu?
(a) to wear Western clothes
(b) to be allowed to go out at night with friends
(c) to eat Western food at home
(d) to leave her and Bibi behind when they go to Bangladesh

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

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

4. What happened to the Bengal Tigers?
(a) they became too radical for most people
(b) they became a part of the Hamas
(c) they continued as they were
(d) they dwindled with the end of the Lion Hearts

5. Nazneen finds herself thinking more and more of:
(a) Shahana
(b) Hasina
(c) Chanu
(d) Karim

6. Why does Nazneen attend the meeting in preparation for the Bengal Tigers march?
(a) Chanu decided they would both go
(b) sahe wants to see Karim again
(c) she wants to know what Chanu is up to
(d) Chanu forbade her to attend

7. The attendees decide on the name of:
(a) Hamlet Bears
(b) Bengal Tigers
(c) Hamlet Tigers
(d) Bengal Lions

8. What does Chanu tell his daughters?
(a) they can wear Western clothing
(b) that they are going home
(c) they will not have to go to Bangledesh
(d) that they will attend the mosque school

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

10. The meeting at the mosque was attended by:
(a) ten people
(b) one hundred people
(c) twenty people
(d) fifty people

11. In their neighborhood, there is now tension between:
(a) radical Muslims, Muslims and non-Muslims
(b) Muslims and police
(c) gangs
(d) whites and blacks

12. Karim says their top priority is to:
(a) straighten out their neighborhood
(b) support the riots in Oldham
(c) raise funds for a new mosque
(d) support the Intifada

13. Nazneen, on the way to pick up threads, is detoured to a:
(a) Dr. Azad's office
(b) lunch with Raiza
(c) meeting at the mosque
(d) Mrs. Islam's apartrment

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

15. The gist of Hasina's letter is that she:
(a) wants to come to London
(b) is feeling guilty
(c) wants Nazneen to return to Dhaka
(d) is confused

Short Answer Questions

1. The purpose of the meeting at the mosque is to:

2. After the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Chanu:

3. What does Raiza tell Nazneen that Tariq has done?

4. What is passed around for all to see during the meeting at the mosque?

5. Why does Nazneen attend the meeting at the mosque?

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