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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Understatement.
(b) Simile.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

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

3. How many siblings does Amal have?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) None.
(d) 1.

4. What is the name of the boy whom Amal has a crush on?
(a) Brad.
(b) Adam.
(c) Josh.
(d) Geoffrey.

5. Which term in her eleventh grade year is Amal entering when she returns to McCleans after break in Chapter 3?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Amal describe her own identity?

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

4. Amal reports that she attended what sort of primary school because her family lived too far away from an Islamic school?

5. 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?

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