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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 the old Italian give to Razia and her friends?
(a) A kitten.
(b) Books.
(c) Some money.
(d) Grapes.

2. What is the dish that Bahar and Aliza prepare to be eaten as soon as the aunties finish reading their sections of Quran?
(a) Lassi.
(b) Nihari.
(c) Chawal.
(d) Saleem.

3. How do Saima and Razia get money?
(a) By selling cookies.
(b) By selling grapes from their grapevines.
(c) By sweeping neighbors' houses.
(d) By trading in cans for money.

4. 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.

5. What is the second job that Razia's father gets?
(a) Subway electrician.
(b) Security guard.
(c) Teaching English as a second language.
(d) Night shift at a hospital lab.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who climbs high into the tree to get the first ripe cherries?

2. What is Razia's community religious leader called?

3. In the chapter "The Exorcist," where is the only place that Razia feels safe outside her home?

4. What is the topic of this different movie that Razia has not seen before in school?

5. What is Taibah Aunty's job in Karachi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the moment of lightness for Razia's mother and the cherry tree?

2. Why do the freckled girls, hanging out with Julio, from the neighborhood make fun of Razia and Taslima?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the ostensible reason that Aliza's parents giver her a clock radio? How do Aliza, Taslima, and Razia mostly use it?

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