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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 is written on the sign that the man, coming towards Taslima and Razia, is carrying?
(a) REPENT.
(b) THE END IS NIGH.
(c) HEAVEN WAITS.
(d) JESUS.

2. What is Angela reading the next day when Razia sees her in the park?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The Village Voice.
(c) Cosmopolitan magazine.
(d) The New York Times.

3. When is the only time that Razia feels truly comfortable talking about Angela?
(a) When she is talking to Ed.
(b) When she is talking to Jessie, one of the other goth girls that Angela and Razia hang out with sometimes.
(c) When she is talking to Allah.
(d) When she is talking to Aliza.

4. According to the book clerk, how did David Wojnarowicz die?
(a) Peacefully in his sleep.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) He was killed at a gallery opening.

5. Who does Angela think that Razia should ask out on a date?
(a) The boy who sits in front of Razia in math who is always secretly helping Razia with hard questions.
(b) Ed.
(c) The stage manager of their high school theater.
(d) Julio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the ferry take Angela and Razia?

2. What is Safia's first word?

3. During the Aunty's sermon, what religion does she say that children in the neighborhood started calling her?

4. What does Taslima get for Razia's birthday?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Angela?

2. 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?

3. At the end of the chapter titled Stuyvesant what does Razia begin to imagine? What starts to disappear for her?

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

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

6. From the clues that you can gather from the book, what is Roza?

7. Why does Razia say yes to having her hair cut?

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

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

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

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