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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 claims that the captain of the McCleans student body is "unbelievably" (95) what?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Smart.
(c) Ignorant.
(d) Pompous.

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

3. In what grade did Leila begin to wear the hijab on a full-time basis, according to Amal?
(a) 8th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 9th.

4. What is Donvale?
(a) A district.
(b) A township.
(c) A neighborhood.
(d) A city.

5. 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?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His niece.
(d) His aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location had Amal been planning to meet her friends before she told a lie to get out of it in Chapter 7?

2. Where is Eileen on the day when Adam and Josh join Amal and Simone beneath a tree during lunchtime?

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

4. Amal reports that which character will not "stop nagging" (136) her about signing up for the debate team?

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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What distinction does Amal make between the two groups of women she and her Muslim friends call "part-timers" and those they refer to as "full-timers" (2)?

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

3. How does Amal describe her own identity?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. What major step does Amal take in Chapter 14 and who gloats about their role in Amal's decision?

10. In what way does Abdel-Fattah use repetition in order to underscore a fervent wish of Amal's in Chapter 5?

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