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

2. Who or what chases Tasiima and Razia into a broken-down garage while they are on their way to Taslima's house?
(a) Julio and his friends.
(b) Stray dogs.
(c) Italian boys from the neighborhood.
(d) Saima and Shahnaaz.

3. What is the name of Razia's neighborhood?
(a) Astoria.
(b) Corona.
(c) Hob Hill.
(d) Red Hook.

4. Where does Razia hide in the first few months of her mother's sadness?
(a) Under the grapevines.
(b) At Saima's house.
(c) In the cherry tree.
(d) At Lucy's house.

5. In what borough of New York is Razia's neighborhood?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Queens.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Bronx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Razia and her friends end up calling their shared pet for short?

2. What does Azim do that makes Razia's mother angry at him and at Saima's mother?

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

4. In front of which building does the Pakistani community gather to read the Eid namaaz?

5. What scene from the movie does Shahnaaz watch and imitate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Razia's mother cry and get angry and become upset at the beginning of the chapter titled, "Cherry Tree"?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. How does Razia introduce her neighborhood?

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

9. Who is the Julio that Razia knows?

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

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