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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 13: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nadira's last name in the novel?
(a) Hussein.
(b) Huston.
(c) Hossein.
(d) Hossain.

2. What language do the members of Nadira's family speak principally?
(a) Bengali.
(b) Japanese.
(c) English.
(d) French.

3. Who confides that her mom is threatening to throw her dad out in Section 9: Chapter 11?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Lily Yee.
(c) Aisha.
(d) Taslima.

4. Who talks about how her graduation present will be visiting her grandparents in India in Section 9: Chapter 11?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Lily Yee.
(d) Kavita.

5. Nadira looks at Abba's paperwork and thinks she has found a way to save him. Worried her discovery will not be enough and she needs something bigger, she arranges to meet with whom in Section 11: Chapter 13?
(a) Tareq.
(b) Mr. Friedlander.
(c) Ali-uncle.
(d) Mr. Rashid.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, Ma's spirits lifted after Abba got cable because she loves watching what?

2. In what year did the September 11 attacks take place on the World Trade Center?

3. In Section 11: Chapter 13, Nadira recalls how who was praised in Dhaka for being a great swimmer and for his strong lungs?

4. Mr. Rashid hopes the appeal will come through, but otherwise, the Hossains will do what, in Section 13: Chapter 16?

5. Aisha and Nadira map out their argument for writing the new director of immigration and who, pleading for special circumstances in Section 7: Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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