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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. Why are Nima and Aisha traveling in "The Airport"?

2. What does Nima's mother wear on her head on her wedding day?

3. Where is Nima the first time her body starts to feel like it is fading on her?

4. What does Nima often think her mother feels?

5. What is different about the social lives of Nima and her best friend?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Aisha name Nima "Nima" instead of "Yasmeen" ?

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

7. In "Haitham" (55), what begins the fight between Haitham and Nima?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What personal connections does Elhillo seem to have to both the characters' backgrounds and the subject matter of this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

How does Elhillo develop the topic of female kinship and support throughout this novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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