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

2. What does Aisha do when Nima tells her someone at school called Nima a terrorist?
(a) Cries.
(b) Calls the student's mother.
(c) Calls the school.
(d) Nothing.

3. What is one thing that Mama Fatheya says can call evil spirits out?
(a) Eating.
(b) Raising one's voice.
(c) Praying in the wrong way.
(d) Cooking.

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

5. What song does Nima sing once that upsets her best friend's mother?
(a) A song about breaking up.
(b) A song about a pearl necklace.
(c) A song about the sea.
(d) A song about a comb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nima's best friend sometimes refer to her as?

2. How does Nima imagine the girl she might have been with a different name?

3. Who is Nima's best friend's grandmother?

4. What did Nima like to wrap herself in when she was little?

5. What color scarf does Aisha wear to the airport?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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