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

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

3. 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 does not really have other friends, but her best friend does.
(c) Nima likes to dance with her friends, and her best friend likes to play sports.
(d) Nima has a lot of other friends, but her best friend does not.

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

5. What does Mama Fatheya often watch on television?
(a) Music videos.
(b) Talk shows.
(c) News.
(d) Cooking shows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word Nima often uses to mean "father"?

2. What does Nima's best friend do in Part I that she thinks is daring?

3. What does Nima hear one girl say to her friend at school when they bump into Nima accidentally?

4. What dress does Nima always admire of her mother's?

5. How many pyramids does the teacher in "Pyramids" tell the class their home country still has?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nima think of her friendship with Haitham?

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

3. In "Jinn," what does Nima think Yasmeen has appeared to her for?

4. In "Videos," what embarrasses Nima terribly in front of her mother?

5. In "Bathwater," what startling thing happens to Nima in the bath?

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

7. In "School," why does Nima beg her mother to stop sending leftovers to school for her?

8. In "The Photograph," who does Nima always admire and long for?

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

10. What does Mama Fatheya tell Nima about her own birth in "Calling Haitham"?

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