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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT part of the list Amal creates that names the reasons she wants to return to school wearing the hijab?
(a) She is tired of obsessing about how her body looks in the eyes of men.
(b) She wants to be courageous in the face of the prejudice she knows she will endure.
(c) She wants to please her parents.
(d) She wants to strengthen her relationship with her Creator.

2. Which term in her eleventh grade year is Amal entering when she returns to McCleans after break in Chapter 3?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

3. In what location does Amal, the protagonist of the novel, have an epiphany at the start of Chapter 1?
(a) At the track.
(b) At the gym.
(c) At her home.
(d) At school.

4. How does Amal describe her own identity?
(a) Australian-Muslim-Israeli.
(b) Pakistani-Muslim-Israeli.
(c) Australian-Muslim-Palestinian.
(d) Brazilian-Muslim-Palestinian.

5. How many siblings does Amal have?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what grade did Leila begin to wear the hijab on a full-time basis, according to Amal?

2. In what country does the narrative of Does My Head Look Big in This? take place?

3. Amal reports that she attended what sort of primary school because her family lived too far away from an Islamic school?

4. In what location is Amal standing when she overhears two other female students talking about her in the locker room?

5. When Amal realizes while on the phone with Leila that her "pocket money isn't going to be going towards [her] DVD collection any more," (21) what does she expect that it will now go toward instead?

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