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

2. What does Mama Fatheya tell Nima had been a rumor around Nima's birth?
(a) Nima had almost died at birth.
(b) Aisha had not wanted to name Nima at all.
(c) Nima came out with a veil.
(d) There had been two babies in Aisha's womb but only one - Nima - had been born.

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

4. What term of affection does Aisha sometimes use for Nima?
(a) Do.
(b) Habiba.
(c) Darling.
(d) Sweetie.

5. Why do boys in Nima's school harass her in Part II?
(a) She has just stood up for someone else.
(b) She has a lot of money and they are jealous.
(c) She is Muslim and 9/11 just happened.
(d) She is smarter than everyone else and they are jealous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aisha say when Nima asks why she still wears her headscarf?

2. Where does Nima sit when she fantasizes about being someone else?

3. What is one thing Nima says she is really upset with Haitham about?

4. What is Nima so embarrassed to be caught doing by her mother in "Videos"?

5. Who comes to get Nima from school when she is suspended?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Aisha say when Nima asks her why she has not stopped wearing her headscarf?

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

5. Why does Haitham call Nima a "Nostalgia Monster"?

6. How do Haitham and Nima know each other?

7. What does Nima tell her mother is really wrong with her in "Ghosts"?

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

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

10. What does Nima imagine about herself in the mirror?

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