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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nima's best friend have to do at school in Part I?
(a) He is suspended.
(b) She is made to plant a garden.
(c) Sing in the talent show.
(d) Repeat a year.

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

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

4. Where is Nima when she calls Yasmeen with everything she has?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) Church.
(c) The bathtub.
(d) The park.

5. Where does Nima keep some of her favorite photos?
(a) In a cardboard envelope.
(b) On her corkboard.
(c) In a tin box.
(d) On a shelf in her closet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Nima's mother and her best friend's mother laugh about in "Overheard"?

3. Who does Nima sometimes imagine she is?

4. Who does Nima ask about jinns in Part II?

5. Who is Nima's best friend?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Haitham and Nima know each other?

2. What happens when Nima is harassed by a group of white boys at school?

3. In "Halloween," what does Haitham tell the kids making fun of Nima?

4. What is one major factor Haitham and Nima have in common?

5. In "Yasmeen," (pgs. 12 - 13), how does Nima imagine the fictional Yasmeen?

6. In "America," what does the girl who comes to Nima's apartment to work on a math project tell their peers at school?

7. In "Haitham" (pg. 43), what does Mama Fatheya tell Nima and Haitham about loud singing after sundown?

8. Why does Nima think her own name is somewhat ironic?

9. In "Baba," what does Aisha have all over the apartment that Nima often looks at?

10. What happens in "The Airport" that Nima always remembers as hurting her mother deeply?

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