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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 has Jude learned that many Americans do in conversation when they do not want to say hard things?

2. What does Grace ask Jude about her own language in Part III?

3. How does Aunt Michelle react to Jude's choice to wear the hijab?

4. Why does Jude cry in the Middle Eastern restaurant her first visit there?

5. Why did Fatima and Amal move out of Syria?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jude think many Americans do not finish their sentences?

2. Why does Layla tell Jude it would be better not to try out for a part in the play?

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

4. Why does Jude decide to try out for a part in the school play?

5. How do Jude and Miles begin to become friends?

6. Where does Issa go when he leaves home in Part III?

7. What does Jude confront Mama with in Part IV that she is very angry about?

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

9. What momentous event happens while Jude is waiting for the results of the play tryouts to be posted?

10. What Arabic proverb does Mrs. Ravenswood put Jude in a mind of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Jude's ESL class different from what she had expected it to be like? How does Jude feel while she is in the ESL class? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What does Jude's discovery of her unsent letters to Fatima in her mother's room lead to between Jude and Mama? Why do both Jude and Mama keep their respective secrets from one another once they have moved to America? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Warga writes "America, like every other place in the world, is a place where some people sleep and some people, other people, dream" (82). Write an essay explaining what you think Warga means with this sentence.

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