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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nima think in "A Country"?
(a) How confusing the whole situation is.
(b) How silent everything is.
(c) How nice the city looks from the roof.
(d) How polluted everything is.

2. Where does Nima go right after she gets off the bus?
(a) Home.
(b) School.
(c) The library.
(d) A street festival.

3. What does Nima do to try to stop the game?
(a) Upends the tea set.
(b) Shrieks.
(c) Makes a window close.
(d) Slams a door.

4. What does Nima ask Yasmeen to stop calling her?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Sister.
(c) Cousin.
(d) Friend.

5. What does Nima refuse to let herself wonder in Part III?
(a) If her mother is still alive.
(b) If her father is still alive.
(c) Is Yasmeen will really be her sister.
(d) If Haitham is still alive.

6. Who comes to Nima in a whirlwind and tells her to go right that minute?
(a) Yasmeen.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her grandmother.

7. How does Nima unexpectedly feel when Yasmeen vanishes from Aisha's house in Part IV?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Happy.
(c) Bereft.
(d) Suspicious.

8. What does Ahmed's friend tell him he and his wife want?
(a) More money.
(b) Respect.
(c) A child.
(d) A house.

9. What does Nima remember her mother telling her in "The Stranger"?
(a) Always have money with her.
(b) Only trust strangers with clean clothes.
(c) Never go anywhere alone with a man.
(d) Always have her cell phone with her.

10. What does Nima think Haitham looks like in the hospital?
(a) Like her father.
(b) Bigger than usual.
(c) Like his father.
(d) Very small.

11. What does Hala tell Aisha in "Visitors"?
(a) She got a new job.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is moving to America.
(d) She is getting married.

12. Who is Nima most interested in observing from the past?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her best friend.

13. What does Nima see in "The Driveway" that she knows might save her?
(a) A cousin of hers.
(b) A limo.
(c) Her mother.
(d) An airport shuttle.

14. What do Yasmeen and Nima use to try to get to shore?
(a) A boat.
(b) A raft.
(c) A tire.
(d) A floating piece of wood.

15. What does Yasmeen say she only wants?
(a) To be a sister to Nima.
(b) To have her own romantic partner.
(c) To be born and exist.
(d) To die.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nima think her father smells like?

2. What does Ahmed's friend ask him to do in Part IV?

3. What is the term Khaltu Hala uses for the shop she sends Haitham to in Part III?

4. What will decide whether it is Nima or Yasmeen that goes on to live in the real world?

5. Where does Yasmeen insist she and Nima go in "Quiet"?

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