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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 34-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 turns on loud music.
(c) She sounds an airhorn.
(d) She jumps up and down on Amal's bedroom floor.

2. In Chapter 8, Amal's father drops her off to meet Simone and Eileen at what type of establishment?
(a) A discotheque.
(b) A bookstore.
(c) A movie theater.
(d) A cafe.

3. 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) Simile.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Personification.
(d) Understatement.

4. What expression of mirth do Amal and Mrs. Vaselli share together, as depicted in the final line of Chapter 32?
(a) A guffaw"
(b) A smile.
(c) A laugh.
(d) A grin.

5. What does Leila reply when Eileen asks whether her mother would ever force her to get married?
(a) She says she has no idea.
(b) She says it would depend.
(c) She says yes.
(d) She says no.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which adult agrees in Chapter 37 to keep Amal's truancy a secret from her parents?

2. Amal claims that the captain of the McCleans student body is "unbelievably" (95) what?

3. Which two methods of communication do Adam and Amal use to talk to one another over midterm break?

4. Samantha is in which year of her studies at the university?

5. Which character believes Amal and Eileen when they joke that Amal's father is forcing her to marry a "sixty-five-year-old camel owner in Egypt" (70)?

(see the answer key)

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