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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 do Yasmeen and Nima use to try to get to shore?
(a) A boat.
(b) A raft.
(c) A floating piece of wood.
(d) A tire.

2. What will decide whether it is Nima or Yasmeen that goes on to live in the real world?
(a) What country the child is born in.
(b) What name Aisha chooses.
(c) What Hala decides to tell Aisha about herself.
(d) What name Ahmed chooses.

3. What does Nima tell her mother after her fight at school that she knows is a cruel thing to say?
(a) She wishes they had moved to Mexico instead.
(b) She wishes her grandmother was still alive.
(c) She wishes she had never been born.
(d) She wishes her father was there to protect her instead of Aisha.

4. What does Nima think in "A Country"?
(a) How silent everything is.
(b) How polluted everything is.
(c) How nice the city looks from the roof.
(d) How confusing the whole situation is.

5. What does Nima come to think of her father as by the end of Part IV?
(a) A rebel.
(b) A coward.
(c) A hero.
(d) A friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game do Nima and her best friend play from their apartment in Part I?

2. What does Nima fantasize would have become of her father if he had lived?

3. What is all Nima's mother will tell her about her grandmother?

4. What does Nima refuse to let herself wonder in Part III?

5. What does Mama Fatheya often watch on television?

(see the answer key)

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