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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 Taslima get for Razia's birthday?
(a) Sequin leg warmers.
(b) The chador that Razia had worn on their first trip to Central Park.
(c) The black and gold vest that Taslima had worn to Central Park.
(d) A new bra from the catalogue that Aliza had shown Razia.

2. What piece of clothing does Taslima want to show Razia at the beginning of the chapter "Bethesda Fountain"?
(a) A blouse.
(b) A skirt.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A vest.

3. What is the motivation behind Angela and Razia's ferry ride?
(a) It is Razia's birthday.
(b) Razia is being elected class president.
(c) Razia is winning a poetry contest.
(d) Razia is being named prefect of freshman students at Stuyvesant.

4. What demand does Taibah Aunty make of Razia?
(a) That Razia stops listening to American music.
(b) That Razia stops skipping morning prayer.
(c) That Razia stops being friends with Angela.
(d) That Razia stops wearing short shorts.

5. What does Bahar ask Aliza about while they are both in the kitchen during the Aunty's Quran Khani?
(a) She asks Aliza about going away to college.
(b) She asks Aliza where she bought her salwar kameez.
(c) She asks Aliza if she can borrow a book.
(d) She asks Aliza about a movie called Sawaal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Razia's mother do with Razia's clothes from Goodwill?

2. Where does the ferry take Angela and Razia?

3. With whom does Razia go to the Goodwill?

4. Who leads the Dua at the end of Quran Khani?

5. Who does Ed say that he and his friends got into a fight with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Taibah Aunty try to say to Razia about how girls were in Pakistan when Taibah Aunty was a girl?

2. How does Aliza break her Roza and what is Razia's reaction?

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

5. What does Razia's father say about Razia wearing Goodwill clothes and Razia's desire to be American?

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

7. How does Razia feel about Taslima's reception of the news that Razia kissed Angela?

8. 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?

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

10. What question does Razia try to ask of Ben but cannot fully express?

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