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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Amal reports that she attended what sort of primary school because her family lived too far away from an Islamic school?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Buddhist.

2. Amal reports that when she begins to wear the hijab, she will be wearing clothes that cover all but which two areas of her body?
(a) Her face and her hands.
(b) Her hands and her head.
(c) Her ankles and her face.
(d) Her ankles and her neck.

3. What is Donvale?
(a) A district.
(b) A neighborhood.
(c) A city.
(d) A township.

4. What television show is on when Amal has the epiphany described in Chapter 1?
(a) Angry Boys.
(b) Big Brother.
(c) Friends.
(d) Survivor.

5. How does Amal characterize her relationship with her mother?
(a) Very close.
(b) Antagonistic.
(c) Drifting apart.
(d) Getting closer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Amal walks away from the two girls after she hears them call her "oppressed" and say that she looks "like a dag," (63) she uses what type of literary device to indicate her anger?

2. What adverb does Amal use to describe the look her parents give one another when she announces during dinner in Chapter 3 that she is going to wear the hijab?

3. What does Amal recall saying to the priest in 4th grade inside the confessional that caused him to give her a penance of "five Hail Marys and five of the Lord's Prayer"?

4. How does Amal's mother wake her up for school in Chapter 4, in addition to kissing her "face and head" (30)?

5. In what country does the narrative of Does My Head Look Big in This? take place?

(see the answer key)

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