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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Amal's mother wake her up for school in Chapter 4, in addition to kissing her "face and head" (30)?
(a) She yanks the quilt off Amal's bed.
(b) She sounds an airhorn.
(c) She turns on loud music.
(d) She jumps up and down on Amal's bedroom floor.

3. Amal reports that she attended what sort of primary school because her family lived too far away from an Islamic school?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Buddhist.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Hebrew.

4. In what location is Amal standing when she overhears two other female students talking about her in the locker room?
(a) Under the gym bleachers.
(b) In the boys' locker room.
(c) In the girls' locker room.
(d) The hallway.

5. According to Amal, women who wear the hijab "all the time" do so whenever in the company of "males who aren't" (2) what?
(a) Muslims.
(b) Immediate family.
(c) Suitors.
(d) Married.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country was Amal born, "and then whacked with some seriously confusing identity hyphens" (6)?

2. Amal reports that when she begins to wear the hijab, she will be wearing clothes that cover all but which two areas of her body?

3. Amal reports that her mother has what type of obsession?

4. How does Amal characterize her relationship with her mother?

5. What sort of literary device does Amal use at the beginning of Chapter 4 to describe her mother's method of waking her up as "severe child abuse" (30)?

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