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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dress does Nima always admire of her mother's?
(a) The floral silk dress.
(b) The black cotton dress.
(c) The yellow silk dress.
(d) The red linen dress.

2. What does Nima's mother make for her and her best friend in Part I?
(a) Tea boiled in milk.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Cheese sandwiches.
(d) Curry.

3. What did Nima's mother once want to be?
(a) A dancer.
(b) A mathematician.
(c) A chef.
(d) A gardener.

4. What does Nima tell Haitham is the only reason they are friends when she fights with him in Part II?
(a) She feels sorry for him.
(b) Their mothers are friends.
(c) He feels sorry for her.
(d) They live in the same building.

5. Where does Nima keep some of her favorite photos?
(a) On a shelf in her closet.
(b) On her corkboard.
(c) In a cardboard envelope.
(d) In a tin box.

6. Who is in the hospital in the end of Part II?
(a) Mama Fatheya.
(b) Aisha.
(c) Khaltu Hala.
(d) Haitham.

7. Who does Nima ask about jinns in Part II?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Haitham.
(c) Mama Fatheya.
(d) Asraf.

8. Why does Nima's best friend come to seek refuge at her house in Part I?
(a) He needs money.
(b) She is sick.
(c) His grandmother found his cigarettes.
(d) He is hungry.

9. What does Aisha say when Nima asks why she still wears her headscarf?
(a) She does not really have a reason for wearing it.
(b) She may stop wearing it soon.
(c) She needs to wear it to fulfill her promise to Nima's father.
(d) She is not ashamed of where she is from.

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

11. What does Nima fantasize would have become of her father if he had lived?
(a) He would probably have always died young.
(b) He would take her for ice cream every day.
(c) He would be amazing at whatever career he chose.
(d) He would take her all over the world.

12. How does Nima imagine the girl she might have been with a different name?
(a) Sleepy.
(b) Beautiful and confident.
(c) Suspicious.
(d) Nasty.

13. What is one thing Nima says she is really upset with Haitham about?
(a) He told kids at school her father is dead.
(b) He made fun of her with his other friends.
(c) He tried to kiss her once.
(d) He stole her scarf.

14. What does Nima's mother's name mean in her native language?
(a) She who lives.
(b) Grace.
(c) Finality.
(d) Bravery.

15. What song does Nima sing once that upsets her best friend's mother?
(a) A song about a comb.
(b) A song about breaking up.
(c) A song about the sea.
(d) A song about a pearl necklace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nima see in "The Photograph"?

2. What class do Nima and her best friend often take together?

3. What is different about the social lives of Nima and her best friend?

4. What does Nima often do by herself after school?

5. What does Mama Fatheya tell Nima had been a rumor around Nima's birth?

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