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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Razia's main teacher at her school?

2. What is Razia's word for "mom"?

3. What is Shafiq uncle's job?

4. What television show does Razia's mom always watch?

5. How does Razia want to get back at Julio's friend for calling her a pajama person?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Mr. Nichols crying when Razia and Julio go to his office to deliver their class's apology letters?

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

5. Later when Taslima and Razia come back around to Julio's house, why does he tell Razia and Taslima to leave?

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

7. What is Razia initial impression of Bahar and what is Razia's impression of Bahar once Razia gets to know Bahar a bit better?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Razia's mother's perspective about community and children? Why is it so important to Razia's mother that Razia have the same values and traditions and religion as Razia's mother? Why do you think Razia's mother is so unwilling to allow Razia to incorporate any secular ideas or behaviors into Razia's life?

Essay Topic 2

What is the tension between Razia's community and Razia's natural instincts to explore non-Pakistani Muslim life? What is the pressure that she feels from her parents and aunties? How does her community and the life her parents want for her make her feel trapped?

Essay Topic 3

Why are Razia's parents so unwavering and single-minded in their commitment to their community and their uninterest and even dislike in much of what the secular world has to offer? How does the fact that they have essentially transplanted a Pakistani village into the middle of Queens affect their outlook? Would Razia's parents have a different perspective if they were living in Pakistan where the temptation of the secular world would be much more minimal?

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