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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Haroun told many people he was going to have how many sons?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

2. In what type of periodical did Leila and Sinan first see a hula hoop?
(a) A magazine.
(b) A book.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) A pamphlet.

3. What kind of animal is Leila's pet Charlie Chaplin?
(a) A dog.
(b) A cat.
(c) A fish.
(d) A turtle.

4. The narrator states that Leila's only brother would have been diagnosed years later as having which condition?
(a) Obsessive compulsive disorder.
(b) Down's syndrome.
(c) Epilepsy.
(d) Dyslexia.

5. How did Leila react when Binnaz again mentioned their shared secret for the first time in over a year?
(a) She ran out of the room.
(b) She ran to tell Suzan.
(c) She drew a sharp breath.
(d) She hugged Binnaz.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Leila names the activities she had been doing just hours before her death, what is NOT mentioned?

2. How many friends does Leila name when she knows her friends will come quickly when they hear of her death?

3. After young Sinan's father died, he harbored "a nagging suspicion that, no matter how hard he tried and how much he changed, he would always" (77) commit what action toward his mother?

4. As a child, Sinan "felt more comfortable next to people who were not" what "in any way" (77)?

5. What name did Leila use when referring to Binnaz?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jameelah come to feel so alienated by her family that she began to spend more time on the streets?

2. What does the braided bracelet symbolize in the chapter entitled "Seven Minutes"?

3. How did Leila meet Sinan?

4. What major conflict did Jameelah have with her family after the death of her mother?

5. Discuss a particular detail in the prologue entitled "The End" that communicates an element of Leila's personality.

6. What does the red belt symbolize within the chapter entitled "Six Minutes"?

7. How did Haroun's increasing religious fervor cause changes in Leila's life during her adolescence?

8. In what way did Uncle engage in the use of grooming techniques with Leila's parents in order to prevent his sexual abuse of Leila from being detected?

9. What was the setting of Leila's birth?

10. Which event described in "One Minute" was later considered by Binnaz, Leila's biological mother, to be the moment that "had debilitated her forever" (33)?

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