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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What language do Nima and Haitham often speak together when they are very young?
(a) French.
(b) German.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Arabic.

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

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

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

6. At the end of Part II, what does Nima plan to tell her mother when Aisha gets home from work?
(a) She is moving out.
(b) She is sorry for everything.
(c) She wants to be an artist.
(d) Nothing.

7. What is the word Nima often uses to mean "father"?
(a) Dad.
(b) Father.
(c) Baba.
(d) Daddy.

8. What does Mama Fatheya tell Nima and Haitham not to do after sundown?
(a) Eat.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Run.
(d) Read.

9. What does Mama Fatheya tell Nima had been a rumor around Nima's birth?
(a) Aisha had not wanted to name Nima at all.
(b) Nima had almost died at birth.
(c) There had been two babies in Aisha's womb but only one - Nima - had been born.
(d) Nima came out with a veil.

10. 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 father was there to protect her instead of Aisha.
(c) She wishes she had never been born.
(d) She wishes her grandmother was still alive.

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

12. What does Nima hear one girl say to her friend at school when they bump into Nima accidentally?
(a) She thinks Nima has a disability.
(b) She thinks Nima is a worker at the school.
(c) She does not think Nima speaks English.
(d) She thinks Nima can not read.

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

14. What does Nima see in "The Photograph"?
(a) Her parents when they were young.
(b) Her sister.
(c) A storm.
(d) Her grandmother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nima's mother's name mean in her native language?

2. What dress does Nima always admire of her mother's?

3. Where is Nima the first time her body starts to feel like it is fading on her?

4. What is one thing that Mama Fatheya says can call evil spirits out?

5. What does Nima often think her mother feels?

(see the answer keys)

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