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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aisha start wearing after 9/11 instead of a scarf on her head?
(a) A top hat.
(b) A knit hat.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A veil.

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

4. What does Nima often think her mother feels?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Aimlessness.
(d) Joy.

5. What is Nima so embarrassed to be caught doing by her mother in "Videos"?
(a) Eating.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Reading.
(d) Cooking.

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

7. 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 likes to dance with her friends, and her best friend likes to play sports.
(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.

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

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

10. Where does Nima sit when she fantasizes about being someone else?
(a) In front of Aisha's mirror.
(b) In the park.
(c) In school.
(d) In church.

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

12. 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 probably have always died young.
(c) He would take her all over the world.
(d) He would be amazing at whatever career he chose.

13. What is all Nima's mother will tell her about her grandmother?
(a) She loved singing.
(b) She loved cooking.
(c) She loved flowers.
(d) She loved guitar.

14. What does Nima tell her mother after her fight at school that she knows is a cruel thing to say?
(a) She wishes she had never been born.
(b) She wishes her grandmother was still alive.
(c) She wishes they had moved to Mexico instead.
(d) She wishes her father was there to protect her instead of Aisha.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nima's best friend?

2. What does Aisha suggest to Nima for making new friends in Part II?

3. What does Nima know her mother once considered naming her?

4. What does Nima tell Haitham is the only reason they are friends when she fights with him in Part II?

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

(see the answer keys)

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