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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 did Nima's mother once want to be?
(a) A dancer.
(b) A gardener.
(c) A mathematician.
(d) A chef.

2. Who does Nima often get together with after school?
(a) Yasmeen.
(b) Fatima.
(c) Henry.
(d) Haitham.

3. Who is in the hospital in the end of Part II?
(a) Mama Fatheya.
(b) Khaltu Hala.
(c) Haitham.
(d) Aisha.

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

5. How long is Nima suspended from school for?
(a) A week.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) A month.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of Nima's favorite singers?

2. What does Nima's mother wear on her head on her wedding day?

3. What does Nima remember wistfully Haitham doing for her years earlier?

4. What does Nima see in "The Photograph"?

5. What does Nima's best friend's mother give to Nima as a gift once?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Nima and Aisha go to the hospital in "The Bus"?

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

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

5. How do Haitham and Nima know each other?

6. Why does Khaltu Hala give Nima a pearl ring?

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

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

9. What does Nima use to imagine Aisha's life before she herself was born?

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

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