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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which song is featured in the television show Amal watches at the beginning of the narrative?
(a) Copacabana.
(b) Maniac.
(c) Greensleeves.
(d) Do You Think I'm Sexy?.

2. When Amal walks away from the two girls after she hears them call her "oppressed" and say that she looks "like a dag," (63) she uses what type of literary device to indicate her anger?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Personification.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Simile.

3. The Islamic rite called "wuduh" (117) involves the washing of what body parts?
(a) The feet.
(b) The ears.
(c) The hands.
(d) The teeth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Josh, Amal, and Simone have a conversation at school in Chapter 11, Josh says that which member of his family will soon be married?

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

3. 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?

4. What is NOT an activity Amal names when she gives examples of occasions when "part-timers" (2) like her wear the hijab?

5. Amal describes "girls who wear the hijab all the time" (2) by using what term?

(see the answer key)

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