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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 Layla tell Jude about the school play?
(a) She has to get her father's permission to try out.
(b) She has to get her mother's permission to try out.
(c) She can not try out.
(d) She has to pay fifty dollars in order to try out.

2. What is the Middle Eastern restaurant on Jude's favorite street called?
(a) Fatulah Baba.
(b) Ali Baba.
(c) Za'taar.
(d) Mama Aishar's.

3. What does Jude tell Layla when Layla says they are not the kind of girls who glow in the spotlight?
(a) She has recorded her own CD before.
(b) She wants to be.
(c) She has always wanted to be a star.
(d) She has starred in school plays before.

4. Which three friends do Sarah and Jude meet up with on the snow day in Part III?
(a) Michelle, Lisa, and Jessica.
(b) Amada, Lettie, and Naomi.
(c) Maddie, Chase, and Lyddie.
(d) Mina, Harper, and Sloane.

5. What does Jude do in Part IV that pleases and surprises her mother and is a sign of maturity in their culture?
(a) Decides to get her first job.
(b) Decides to start wearing mostly black clothes.
(c) Decides to start wearing nail polish.
(d) Decides to start wearing a hijab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Mama cooks when it is time for her to cook dinner?

2. What does Jude start to think is the bravest thing a person can do?

3. What does Uncle Mazin say about Mama's cooking?

4. What proverb does Mrs. Ravenswood make Jude think of?

5. What does Sarah say to Jude before they go to meet up with Sarah's friends?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the rest of the family react the night Mama cooks dinner in Part III?

2. Why does Jude choose the song she chooses to sing for her tryout for the play?

3. Why does Layla think Jude is lucky?

4. What does Mama say at the doctor's appointment in Part III that makes the ultrasound technician laugh?

5. Soon after the news of Issa's departure from home, what does Jude start to realize about America's attitudes towards refugees?

6. What does the person at the hospital say to Mama as she and Jude are leaving that upsets them both?

7. What does Jude defiantly tell Sarah's friends when they go sledding in Part IV?

8. Why does Jude like Ludlow Avenue so much?

9. Why does Jude get so emotional when she goes to the Middle Eastern restaurant and they serve her food for the first time?

10. How does Jude's wearing her hijab change the way people look at her on the street?

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