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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Her hands and her head.
(b) Her ankles and her face.
(c) Her ankles and her neck.
(d) Her face and her hands.

2. When Amal first arrived at McCleans, one teacher had expressed surprise that Amal had what type of eyes?
(a) Fair.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

3. 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)?
(a) Kristy.
(b) Eileen.
(c) Simone.
(d) Tia.

4. Who demands in Chapter 10 that Leila fix him a plate of food?
(a) Hakan.
(b) George.
(c) Uncle Tariq.
(d) Uncle Joe.

5. Amal recalls in Chapter 7 that when she attended Islamic College, a group of boys had thrown a can of what liquid at the vehicle the boys called a "'wog' school bus" (79)?
(a) Tab.
(b) Pepsi.
(c) Fanta.
(d) Coke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which song is featured in the television show Amal watches at the beginning of the narrative?

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

3. 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?

4. The tree under which a conversation takes place in Chapter 12 is next to what type of "oval" (125)?

5. For what length of time have Amal and her family lived in Donvale?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Amal feel in Chapter 7 when her classmates break their silence about her hijab?

2. What reasons does Amal provide for wanting to wear the hijab all the time when she makes one of her lists?

3. Who is the first person to encourage Amal to sign up for the debating competition after it is announced?

4. In what way does Abdel-Fattah combine irony with the motif of dreams in Chapter 2?

5. What do postcards symbolize within Chapter 12?

6. Who is Hakan and what conflict develops out of his appearance in Chapter 8?

7. Describe Amal's relationship with her mother.

8. How does Gulchin, Leila's mother, feel about how her son Hakan treats his sister Leila?

9. In what way does Abdel-Fattah build suspense in connection with the novel's main conflict at the end of Chapter 1?

10. How does Amal react when Tia comes into the women's restroom at the start of Chapter 11?

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