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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nima's mother make for her and her best friend in Part I?

2. What does Nima tell her mother after her fight at school that she knows is a cruel thing to say?

3. What does Nima tell Haitham is the only reason they are friends when she fights with him in Part II?

4. What do Nima and her best friend often watch?

5. Who is in the hospital in the end of Part II?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Haitham and Nima know each other?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Nima think her own name is somewhat ironic?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Elhillo treat the topic of male abuse of women through the backgrounds and experiences of both Nima and her mother Aisha? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How do both Nima and Yasmeen change during their time together observing - and even altering - the past? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How and why does Elhillo steadily build on descriptions of the anti-Muslim, xenophobic attitudes and behaviors Nima, Haitham, and their families experience? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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