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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. Where does Razia hide her Goodwill blazer and dress after she washes them?
2. What happens to the Aunty's husband?
3. What is Angela reading the next day when Razia sees her in the park?
4. What piece of clothing does Angela's dad get her for Christmas?
5. What does Taibah Aunty see at the Queensboro Plaza train station?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where do Taslima and Razia go after school and why does Razia have to be secretive about it?
2. From the clues that you can gather from the book, what is Roza?
3. Why does The Aunty's sermon at the Khatum make Razia uncomfortable?
4. Why does Razia say yes to having her hair cut?
5. What does Taibah Aunty try to say to Razia about how girls were in Pakistan when Taibah Aunty was a girl?
6. At the end of the chapter titled Stuyvesant what does Razia begin to imagine? What starts to disappear for her?
7. 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?
8. What is the ultimatum that Taibah Aunty gives to Razia?
9. Why does The Aunty move in with Razia's family?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do you think about Razia's journey toward self-determination and becoming the kind of person that Razia wants to be? Does it seem like Razia knows exactly who she wants to be and how she wants to live or is there an element of exploration and exposure that leads Razia? Is it a mixture of both? What guides Razia on her course? What are the internal and external forces that act on Razia as she finds who she is?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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