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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 Aliza find in her desk drawer during Ramzaan that she is delighted to find?
2. What kind of hair cut style does Taslima ask for?
3. What club does Razia tell her mother she was attending when she was really at the Goodwill?
4. What high school is Saima going to attend?
5. What demand does Taibah Aunty make of Razia?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Razia feel about Taslima's reception of the news that Razia kissed Angela?
2. What does Taibah Aunty try to say to Razia about how girls were in Pakistan when Taibah Aunty was a girl?
3. What question does Razia ask of the Ouija board and what is the response?
4. 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?
5. Why does The Aunty's sermon at the Khatum make Razia uncomfortable?
6. How does Aliza break her Roza and what is Razia's reaction?
7. Where do Taslima and Razia go after school and why does Razia have to be secretive about it?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. What is Ben, the Strand bookstore clerk able to guess about Razia and Angela?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Is Roses, in the Mouth of A Lion a story that has a message or multiple messages? What is one message that this story is offering? What elements of the story guide you to what you think the message or messages are?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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