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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 Jude begin to feel about her uncle's house not so long after she arrives?
(a) She feels jealous of her uncle for how prosperous he is.
(b) She feels she will never be comfortable there.
(c) She feels it is starting to look like her apartment back in Syria.
(d) She feels as if it is becoming her friend.

2. Who is Jude's aunt in America?
(a) Michelle.
(b) Lily.
(c) Lauren.
(d) Maureen.

3. What does Jude say to the immigration official in the U.S. at the airport?
(a) She confirms in English they are there to visit her uncle Mazin.
(b) She tells them they are there for her mother to have a baby.
(c) She tells him she is there to work.
(d) She tells him they are there to stay permanently.

4. What does Jude's mother call her as an affectionate nickname?
(a) Mon'yeh.
(b) Franci.
(c) Liebshein.
(d) Habibti.

5. Who is the president of Syria?
(a) Bashar al-Assad.
(b) Renala Roneyeh.
(c) Marin Basher.
(d) Amal Al-Houmani.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Jude and Mama talk to Baba from America?

2. What does the girl from Damascus tell Fatima and Jude about the American movies they tell her they like?

3. What does Jude tell herself as she walks into her new school in America for the first time?

4. What does Jude notice her aunt particularly loves?

5. How does Sarah react to her father taking Jude out to dinner, just the two of them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jude see her town change in Part I?

2. Why does Jude decide not to raise her hand in math class on her first day even though she knows the answer?

3. What does Jude's Mama tell Issa about his activism in Part I?

4. What has begun to drive a wedge between Jude's brother Issa and her Baba?

5. Why does Jude's Baba refuse to leave Syria with her and her Mama?

6. What does Mama tell Jude she needs to help her with in America?

7. What does Jude overhear Sarah say in Part II that offends her?

8. What happens the first time Jude visits Issa's new apartment?

9. How have Fatima and Jude grown apart, according to Jude?

10. Why does Jude feel nervous going through immigration at the airport in America?

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