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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the countryside in Somalia, and is sometimes used as a descriptive word in the book to explain people who are backwards or not modern nor progressive?
(a) Miye.
(b) Fatwa.
(c) Hajj.
(d) Tolka.

2. What was the name of Ayaan's half-sister through her father who was very religious and wore the veil?
(a) Arro.
(b) Jawahir.
(c) Ijaabo.
(d) Ijaabo.

3. Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace" starts with the family moving where?
(a) Saudi Arabia.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Ethiopia.

4. Where did Ayaan's father return in the beginning of Chapter 9, "Abeh"?
(a) Jeddah.
(b) Nairobi.
(c) Matabaan.
(d) Mogadishu.

5. Where did Haweya insist on going in order to be with their mom and around Muslims in Chapter 13, "Leiden"?
(a) Kenya.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Sudan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ayaan arrive with her mother, brother and sister and become stranded at the airport in Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace"?

2. In what year does Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace" begin?

3. Who was not pleased with the return of Ayaan's father and refused to speak to him in Chapter 9, "Abeh"?

4. What is the first western country which Ayaan traveled to while waiting for her visa to Canada?

5. In Chapter 3, "Playing Tag in Allah's Palace," Ayaan compares her parents, considering her father more gentle and believing in the spirit of the laws while her mother was stricter and teaching what?

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