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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Nima's mother's name?
(a) Fata.
(b) Aisha.
(c) Fatima.
(d) Hala.

5. What does the girl in Nima's math class tell their classmates Nima's apartment smells like?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Manure.
(c) Curry.
(d) Rice and dirty plants.

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

7. What does Nima's best friend's mother give to Nima as a gift once?
(a) A pearl ring.
(b) A pair of shoes.
(c) A silk scarf.
(d) A walkman.

8. 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.

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

10. Who is Nima's best friend's grandmother?
(a) Grandma Fatima.
(b) Grandma Loti.
(c) Mama Ayesha.
(d) Mama Fatheya.

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

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

13. What does Aisha do when Nima tells her someone at school called Nima a terrorist?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Calls the school.
(c) Cries.
(d) Calls the student's mother.

14. What does Aisha suggest to Nima for making new friends in Part II?
(a) Girls from dance class.
(b) Girls in her Arabic class.
(c) Girls from their building.
(d) Girls from church.

15. 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) He is hungry.
(d) His grandmother found his cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are Nima and Aisha traveling in "The Airport"?

3. In "Halloween," what does one student at school say about Nima's mother?

4. What song does Nima sing once that upsets her best friend's mother?

5. Where is Nima when she calls Yasmeen with everything she has?

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