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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. Which guest at the dinner party tells Amal that she will be limiting her future opportunities by choosing to wear the hijab in public?
(a) George.
(b) Uncle Joe.
(c) Aunt Mandy.
(d) Samantha.

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

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?
(a) A car.
(b) Books.
(c) Clothing.
(d) College.

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

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 the track.
(c) At school.
(d) At her home.

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. What adjective does Josh use to describe his family's observance of Judaism?

3. Who accuses Amal of smoking cigarettes in Chapter 5?

4. Who demands in Chapter 10 that Leila fix him a plate of food?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Amal describe her own identity?

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

4. For what reason does Amal enter the women's restroom at the start of Chapter 11 and how does Tia react when she enters the restroom?

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

6. Discuss an instance when Abdel-Fattah uses a simile to portray a character's emotions.

7. Describe Amal's relationship with her mother.

8. How does Amal use a particular incident from her own past as an example of the lack of one "Muslim appearance" (135) in Chapter 13?

9. Describe the differences between Amal's old neighborhood of Donvale and the suburb of Camberwell where the family had moved the year before narrative present.

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

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