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

2. Who does Nima think she sees in the corner of her room in Part II?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Yasmeen.

3. Who comes to get Nima from school when she is suspended?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Ashraf.
(c) Mama Fatheya.
(d) Khaltu Hala.

4. What is the term Khaltu Hala uses for the shop she sends Haitham to in Part III?
(a) Bigala.
(b) Department store.
(c) Superstore.
(d) Bodega.

5. Why does Aisha want to stay in her home country?
(a) She can not leave her mother.
(b) She is sick and it might kill her to leave.
(c) She loves it and feels a responsibility to fix it.
(d) She does not want to leave her first child there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yasmeen say she had always wished she had gotten in a name?

2. What does Nima think in "A Country"?

3. What does Nima often think her mother feels?

4. What does Nima tell her mother after her fight at school that she knows is a cruel thing to say?

5. What does Nima realize is the relationship between Hala and Haitham's father?

(see the answer key)

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