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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Francois' grandmother owned as a baby in the Congo?

2. What was Firoozeh's school doing mandatory checks for in Chapter 7?

3. What did Firoozeh's teacher pull out for the class when introducing her?

4. Who in Firoozeh's family could speak English when they first arrived in California?

5. What grade did Firoozeh begin at Leffingwell Elementary School?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Firoozeh's teacher showed the class a map in Chapter 1?

2. Why was Firoozeh embarrassed on her way home from school with her mother in Chapter 1?

3. Where did the narrator move when she was seven? How did her family feel about the move?

4. Describe the difficulty Firoozeh faced after changing her name. What did she change it to?

5. Where did Francois want to honeymoon? What was Firoozeh's reaction?

6. What did the Dumas family discover about Kazem's English in Chapter 2?

7. What obstacles did Firoozeh face because of her fear of bathing in front of the other girls at camp?

8. Why did Uncle Nematollah stay with the family? What was he fascinated with in America?

9. How does the narrator describe America's knowledge of her home country in her youth?

10. What had Nazirah wanted to study? Why didn't she?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe American fast food, particularly that of the 1970s. What American foods were new in the 1970s? When was the microwave invented? Who in the narrative was obsessed with fast food?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Uncle Nematollah and explore the weight loss industry in the American '70s. How safe and/or effective were the weight loss pills, diet shakes, etc.?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. When was it established? What was Disneyland like in the early 1970s as opposed to today?

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