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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 does Taslima want Razia to wear to Central Park?
2. Where was the Aunty living before she comes to live with Razia?
3. Who hosts the Khatum for the Aunty?
4. What book does Angela want to get for her and Razia at Strand?
5. What does Taibah Aunty see at the Queensboro Plaza train station?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the end of the chapter titled Stuyvesant what does Razia begin to imagine? What starts to disappear for her?
2. Why do Razia and Taslima go to Central Park?
3. 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?
4. Where do Taslima and Razia go after school and why does Razia have to be secretive about it?
5. 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?
6. From the clues that you can gather from the book, what is Roza?
7. What does Razia think about Peter Styuvesant? And what does Razia take pleasure in about attending Stuyvesant high school in regard to race and religion?
8. Why does The Aunty's sermon at the Khatum make Razia uncomfortable?
9. Who is Angela?
10. Why does Razia feel like "Dorothy entering the land of Oz"(234) when Angela takes her to the West Village in Manhattan?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the difference for Razia between Islam and Allah? How does the author convey this difference in the book? Find specific examples to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
What role does friendship play in Razia's life? How does friendship shape Razia's journey? Are there ways in which Razia's friends disappoint her? Are there ways in which Razia disappoints her friends? What comment do you think the author is making about friendship?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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