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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 yellow silk dress.
(b) The red linen dress.
(c) The floral silk dress.
(d) The black cotton dress.

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

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

4. In "Halloween," what does one student at school say about Nima's mother?
(a) He calls her a slut.
(b) He calls her a terrorist.
(c) He calls her stupid.
(d) He calls her beautiful.

5. What color scarf does Aisha wear to the airport?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Purple.
(d) Blue.

6. Who is Nima's best friend?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Hala.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Haitham.

7. What does Nima's own name mean?
(a) Courage.
(b) Grace.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Finality.

8. What did Nima like to wrap herself in when she was little?
(a) Her mother's scarves.
(b) Cotton balls.
(c) Her father's blanket
(d) The bathroom rug.

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 a cop.
(d) Her father is dead.

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

11. Who is Nima's best friend's mother?
(a) Khlatu Aisha.
(b) Khaltu Ami.
(c) Khaltu Fatima.
(d) Khaltu Hala.

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

13. Who does Nima often get together with after school?
(a) Fatima.
(b) Haitham.
(c) Henry.
(d) Yasmeen.

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

15. How do Nima and her mother travel to the hospital in Part II?
(a) Bus.
(b) Car.
(c) Train.
(d) Plane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of Nima's favorite singers?

2. Why do boys in Nima's school harass her in Part II?

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

4. What term of affection does Aisha sometimes use for Nima?

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

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