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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 the girl in Nima's math class tell their classmates Nima's apartment smells like?
(a) Curry.
(b) Rice and dirty plants.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Manure.

2. What does Nima's mother make for her and her best friend in Part I?
(a) Tea boiled in milk.
(b) Cheese sandwiches.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Curry.

3. What happens at the airport in "The Airport"?
(a) Nima gets sick.
(b) The gate agent prevents Nima and Aisha from boarding because they are Muslims.
(c) Aisha gets sick.
(d) The plane skids off the runway.

4. What is all Nima's mother will tell her about her grandmother?
(a) She loved cooking.
(b) She loved flowers.
(c) She loved guitar.
(d) She loved singing.

5. Who does Nima think she sees in the corner of her room in Part II?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her father.
(d) Yasmeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Halloween," what does one student at school say about Nima's mother?

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

3. What does Aisha start wearing after 9/11 instead of a scarf on her head?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do Haitham and Nima know each other?

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

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

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

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

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