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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. In what location does Amal, the protagonist of the novel, have an epiphany at the start of Chapter 1?
(a) At the gym.
(b) At school.
(c) At her home.
(d) At the track.

2. In what activity is Amal participating when she describes her epiphany at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Doing her homework.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Exercising.
(d) Brushing her teeth.

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

4. According to Amal, women who wear the hijab "all the time" do so whenever in the company of "males who aren't" (2) what?
(a) Immediate family.
(b) Suitors.
(c) Muslims.
(d) Married.

5. Amal thinks to herself that most people assume that there are how many types within the "Muslim appearance" (135)?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Eileen on the day when Adam and Josh join Amal and Simone beneath a tree during lunchtime?

2. Which term in her eleventh grade year is Amal entering when she returns to McCleans after break in Chapter 3?

3. How old is George, the only son of Aunt Mandy and Uncle Joe?

4. When Simone and Amal travel home from school together in Chapter 8, Simone says that which character had accused Simone of spending more money on Big Macs per month than she did on a gym membership?

5. Who demands in Chapter 10 that Leila fix him a plate of food?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gulchin, Leila's mother, feel about how her son Hakan treats his sister Leila?

2. In what way does Abdel-Fattah combine irony with the motif of dreams in Chapter 2?

3. Name and describe Amal's friends.

4. How does Amal describe her own identity?

5. What reasons does Amal provide for wanting to wear the hijab all the time when she makes one of her lists?

6. What do postcards symbolize within Chapter 12?

7. What major step does Amal take in Chapter 14 and who gloats about their role in Amal's decision?

8. How does Amal use a particular incident from her own past as an example of the lack of one "Muslim appearance" (135) in Chapter 13?

9. In what way does Abdel-Fattah build suspense in connection with the novel's main conflict at the end of Chapter 1?

10. In what way does Abdel-Fattah use repetition in order to underscore a fervent wish of Amal's in Chapter 5?

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