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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Blandly.
(b) Excitedly.
(c) Furtively.
(d) Nervously.

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

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

4. When Amal realizes while on the phone with Leila that her "pocket money isn't going to be going towards [her] DVD collection any more," (21) what does she expect that it will now go toward instead?
(a) A car.
(b) College.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Books.

5. 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 neck.
(d) Her ankles and her face.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who accuses Amal of smoking cigarettes in Chapter 5?

2. In what location does Amal, the protagonist of the novel, have an epiphany at the start of Chapter 1?

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

4. Amal reports that her mother has what type of obsession?

5. How many siblings does Amal have?

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