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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 game do Nima and her best friend play from their apartment in Part I?

2. What do Nima's mother and her best friend's mother laugh about in "Overheard"?

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

4. What does Nima fantasize would have become of her father if he had lived?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What recollections of their time together in the past and the spirit world do Nima and Yasmeen have at the end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why is the yellow dress such a powerful symbol of love, affection, and inter-generational solitude between Nima and Aisha? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How and why are things so different between Nima and Aisha once Nima returns from her journey to the past? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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