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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 Saima say that Razia has to sleep with if Razia is going to sleep over at Saima's house?
(a) Mice.
(b) A frog that will sit on Razia's head.
(c) A spider that will crawl up Razia's legs.
(d) A ghost.

2. Where is Bahar's husband to be from?
(a) Pakistan.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) India.
(d) England.

3. How does Razia's mother plan to get rid of the roaches in their home?
(a) With a roach fumigator.
(b) Luring them outside with food.
(c) By playing a high pitched tone that roaches are repelled by.
(d) Sticky traps.

4. What is the topic of this different movie that Razia has not seen before in school?
(a) AIDS.
(b) World War II.
(c) Watergate trials.
(d) The fall of the Berlin Wall.

5. In the chapter "Sugar Fiends," where does Lucy go?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Spain.
(c) Pakistan.
(d) Dominican Republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Razia's mother, how does a person get into the express lane to enter heaven?

2. From whom does Julio steal flowers?

3. What kind of flower does Julio steal?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 5, "Ajax, Raid, and Mr. Clean," what is Razia's mother checking Razia for?

5. What does Razia find outside her home that she wants to bury?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Razia wonder about in relation to girls being allowed to go to masjid after seeing Ziyad be forgiven by Allah for killing Razia's pet cat?

2. Who is the Julio that Razia knows?

3. How does Razia's father react to the call to prayer from the Hafiz Saab and why?

4. Why does Razia push Julio away from her when they are burying the dead bird?

5. How does Razia interpret the look on the old Italian's face after seeing what becomes of the cat?

6. What happens to the kitten that the old Italian gives to Razia and her friends?

7. How does Razia describe Bahar's house?

8. How does Razia's grandmother survive in Pakistan after her husband dies?

9. What is Aliza's ambition after high school? what is her opinion about marrying a Pakistani man?

10. What does Saima say will crawl up Razia's leg and onto her stomach when she sleeps over Saima's house during the night that Razia's house is being fumigated to kill the roaches and what is it that really happens?

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