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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 Razia's mother do with Razia's clothes from Goodwill?
(a) She alters them so that they fit Razia even better.
(b) Razia's mother wears them herself.
(c) She throws them in the garbage.
(d) She returns them to Goodwill.

2. What magazine does Razia bring over to Taslima house on the weekends?
(a) New York Times Magazine.
(b) Harper's Review.
(c) Vanity Fair.
(d) Vogue.

3. What is Razia's Zodiac sign?
(a) Capricorn.
(b) Aries.
(c) Sagittarius.
(d) Gemini.

4. What nickname do Razia and Taslima's mother start calling Razia and Taslima when they are together, laughing for no apparent reason?
(a) Chickadees.
(b) Khee-Khees.
(c) Par-Pars.
(d) Tee-Hees.

5. What news does the Aunty get from her sister on the phone?
(a) The Aunty is moving back to Texas.
(b) The Aunty is staying in Queens.
(c) The Aunty is going back to Pakistan.
(d) The Aunty's nephew is getting engaged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What high school is Saima going to attend?

2. What does the Aunty's nephew study in college?

3. According to the book clerk, how did David Wojnarowicz die?

4. What is Safia's first word?

5. Who wants to join Razia and Angela after they decide to skip school and go to Angela's mom's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Razia reluctant to get her hair cut?

2. What statue are Razia and Angela drawn to at the end of their visit to the Met? What is the famous rumor about the woman whose statue they are drawn to?

3. What does Razia feel that Angela does not understand about Razia's parents not allowing Razia to date anyone outside of her Pakistani-Muslim community?

4. Why does Razia feel like "Dorothy entering the land of Oz"(234) when Angela takes her to the West Village in Manhattan?

5. What is the ultimatum that Taibah Aunty gives to Razia?

6. What is Razia's thought about race and ethnicity as she and Angela move through the galleries of paintings and sculptures? Whose face is she seeing in all the art?

7. Why does The Aunty move in with Razia's family?

8. What is Ben, the Strand bookstore clerk able to guess about Razia and Angela?

9. Why is Razia initially reluctant once she changes into her fashionable outfit? How does she feel once she walks around bit?

10. Where do Taslima and Razia go after school and why does Razia have to be secretive about it?

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