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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 Azim do that makes Razia's mother angry at him and at Saima's mother?
(a) Azim refuses to go to masjid.
(b) Azim steals from Razia's father's shop.
(c) Azim refuses to eat with Razia's family.
(d) Azim wants to marry a Dominican woman.

2. What number I.S. does Razia attend?
(a) I.S. 71.
(b) I.S. 118.
(c) I.S. 61.
(d) I.S. 42.

3. What does Taslima want to do at her house that would mean leaving the Vaz?
(a) Listen to the radio.
(b) Watch Television.
(c) Drive the Car.
(d) Dance.

4. Who does Taibah Aunty take Razia to see in the chapter "The Exorcist"?
(a) Bahar's mother.
(b) Hafiz Saab.
(c) Peer Saab.
(d) The Korean Grandmother in the neighborhood.

5. Where do Saima and Razia's fathers first meet?
(a) Peshwar University.
(b) At a medical lab in Pakistan.
(c) At an employment office in New York.
(d) In the United Embassy in Pakistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Saima's mother mostly speak?

2. What is the name of Razia's neighborhood?

3. Where does Razia hide in the first few months of her mother's sadness?

4. Who teaches Quran to Razia and her friends?

5. What does Razia need matches for in Chapter 2, "Skin"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Razia's mother think about a Pakistani person who spends their time singing and dancing?

2. Why does Razia's mother take Razia to see Peer Saab?

3. What is Razia initial impression of Bahar and what is Razia's impression of Bahar once Razia gets to know Bahar a bit better?

4. Why does Razia cherish the time that her mother spends looking through Razia's hair for lice?

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

6. What is Saima and Razia's experience with the man at the can counting desk at Key Food?

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. Later when Taslima and Razia come back around to Julio's house, why does he tell Razia and Taslima to leave?

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