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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. When Nazneen confronts Chanu about the money from Dr. Azad, she finds:

2. What does Karim do at the meeting in preparation for the march?

3. The gist of Hasina's letter is that she:

4. Nazneen plans to tell Chanu:

5. Why does Nazneen attend the meeting in preparation for the Bengal Tigers march?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nazneen get Mrs. Islam to forgive the debt?

2. What is Hasina's secret?

3. When Nanzeen tells Karim of the plans to move to Bangladesh, what does he tell her?

4. What does Karim tell Nazneen about a group of kids in the neighborhood?

5. What does Nazneen tell Karim?

6. What does Nazneen learn from her letters from Hasina?

7. After almost thirty years in England, why does Chanu decide to go sightseeing?

8. What alarms Nazneen when she listens to Chanu and Dr. Azad talk at dinner?

9. What happens when Nazneen goes out for thread?

10. Why does Hasina write in the letter to her sister?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Chanu become increasingly better toward the English? What indications are there of this? How does Nazneen deal with the situation?

Essay Topic 2

What indications are there that Nazneen will become more Westernized? What is the significance of the ice skating rink? Why is it significant that Raiza is there?

Essay Topic 3

Why are there so many clashes between Chanu and Shahana? What are the sources of these clashes? How can they be resolved?

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