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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 131 - 174, "Room" - "Alone").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nima do on the bus in Part III?
(a) Gives her seat up for someone else.
(b) Opens its windows.
(c) Talks to the driver incessantly.
(d) Jumps off without her mother.

2. What does Nima try to buy right after she gets off the bus in Part III?
(a) Books.
(b) A chair.
(c) Food.
(d) Clothes.

3. Who asks Nima and her best friend what they do all day?
(a) Their teachers.
(b) Their other friends.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) Mama Fatheya.

4. What does Nima ask Yasmeen to stop calling her?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Sister.
(d) Friend.

5. What is different about the social lives of Nima and her best friend?
(a) Nima does not really have other friends, but her best friend does.
(b) Nima likes to dance with her friends, and her best friend likes to play sports.
(c) Nima's best friend likes to sing with her other friends, and Nima likes to do play sports with hers.
(d) Nima has a lot of other friends, but her best friend does not.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some of Aisha's friends do to try to help her decide on a name?

2. What does Aisha say to a man who bumps her on the bus?

3. What does Nima remember wistfully Haitham doing for her years earlier?

4. Why does Ahmed tell his friend he is thinking of leaving his wife?

5. How does Nima imagine the girl she might have been with a different name?

(see the answer key)

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