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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class do Nima and her best friend often take together?
(a) Dance.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Math.

2. What do Nima and her best friend often watch?
(a) News.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) New sit-coms.
(d) Old movies.

3. What happens at the airport in "The Airport"?
(a) Aisha gets sick.
(b) The gate agent prevents Nima and Aisha from boarding because they are Muslims.
(c) Nima gets sick.
(d) The plane skids off the runway.

4. What does Nima know her mother once considered naming her?
(a) Grace.
(b) Yasmeen.
(c) Hope.
(d) Hala.

5. What game do Nima and her best friend play from their apartment in Part I?
(a) Chess.
(b) They make daisy chains.
(c) Monopoly.
(d) They yell names out the window and see how many people look up.

6. Who is one of Nima's favorite singers?
(a) Tina Turner.
(b) Kendrick Lamar.
(c) Post Malone.
(d) Sayed Khalifa.

7. Who does Nima sometimes imagine she is?
(a) Yasmeen, a figment of her mind.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A famous dancer.
(d) A famous singer.

8. What does Nima's best friend sometimes refer to her as?
(a) A wonder.
(b) A hitchhiker.
(c) A Nostalgia Monster.
(d) A banshee.

9. What does Haitham tell kids at school in an effort to defend Nima?
(a) Her father is the mayor.
(b) Her father is rich.
(c) Her father is dead.
(d) Her father is a cop.

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

11. What was Nima's best friend's mother's hair like when she first arrived in America?
(a) Very long.
(b) Dyed blond.
(c) Very short.
(d) Dyed blue.

12. 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.

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 tried to kiss her once.
(c) He stole her scarf.
(d) He made fun of her with his other friends.

14. What do Nima's mother and her best friend's mother laugh about in "Overheard"?
(a) A joke about being tired of having children.
(b) Their own cooking of American dishes.
(c) A joke about a flower.
(d) A joke about the American style of working.

15. What are evil spirits called by Mama Fatheya?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Banshees.
(c) Goblins.
(d) Jinns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Nima keep some of her favorite photos?

2. Who is Nima's best friend's grandmother?

3. What language do Nima and Haitham often speak together when they are very young?

4. What does Aisha leave for Nima every day that she is suspended from school?

5. What does the girl in Nima's math class tell their classmates Nima's apartment smells like?

(see the answer keys)

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