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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. Where do Razia and her family stay while the roaches are being killed?

3. At whose house does Razia say the vazes take place?

4. What movie do Razia, Taslima, and Shahnaaz watch on Bahar's mother's VCR?

5. What does Razia see when she looks into the old Italian's yard?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Razia's friends and where do they live?

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

3. What happens when the bread truck breaks down in Razia's neighborhood?

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

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

6. Why does Razia cherish the time that her mother spends looking through Razia's hair for lice?

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

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

9. According to Razia, why does every Pakistani family have a tape recorder?

10. What happens between Saima's family and Razia's family after Saima's uncle steals from Razia's father's butcher shop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attracts Razia to the secular world outside of her community? How do things like Julio's friends calling her and Taslima pajama people and Amir's murder affect Razia and the tension around how she wants to live her life?

Essay Topic 2

At the end of the chapter titled, "Bethesda Fountain" Razia thinks that she and Taslima and everyone are just like the ducks who go against their natural instincts to be taken care of. Why does Razia think that? How does that thought directly apply to Razia's life?

Essay Topic 3

What do you think of Razia's mother? What kind of woman is she? Is she gentle? Is she strict? What parts of the story give you your impression of Razia's mother? How does Razia's mother feel about her community? How does Razia's mother feel about Razia? What does she want for Razia?

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