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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Nima's own name mean?
(a) Courage.
(b) Finality.
(c) Grace.
(d) Beauty.
2. What does Mama Fatheya tell Nima and Haitham not to do after sundown?
(a) Read.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Run.
(d) Eat.
3. What game do Nima and her best friend play from their apartment in Part I?
(a) They make daisy chains.
(b) Chess.
(c) Monopoly.
(d) They yell names out the window and see how many people look up.
4. What is Nima so embarrassed to be caught doing by her mother in "Videos"?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Eating.
(c) Reading.
(d) Dancing.
5. What does Nima remember wistfully Haitham doing for her years earlier?
(a) Cooking for her.
(b) Standing up for her when other girls made fun of her.
(c) Leaving her alone when she wanted to be left alone.
(d) Bringing her flowers.
6. What is the word Nima often uses to mean "father"?
(a) Baba.
(b) Dad.
(c) Daddy.
(d) Father.
7. Who is Nima's best friend's mother?
(a) Khaltu Fatima.
(b) Khaltu Ami.
(c) Khlatu Aisha.
(d) Khaltu Hala.
8. What does Aisha suggest to Nima for making new friends in Part II?
(a) Girls from dance class.
(b) Girls in her Arabic class.
(c) Girls from church.
(d) Girls from their building.
9. What does Nima often think her mother feels?
(a) Joy.
(b) Suspicion.
(c) Aimlessness.
(d) Loneliness.
10. What does Nima fantasize would have become of her father if he had lived?
(a) He would take her for ice cream every day.
(b) He would be amazing at whatever career he chose.
(c) He would probably have always died young.
(d) He would take her all over the world.
11. Who does Nima ask about jinns in Part II?
(a) Haitham.
(b) Aisha.
(c) Mama Fatheya.
(d) Asraf.
12. Who is in the hospital in the end of Part II?
(a) Khaltu Hala.
(b) Haitham.
(c) Mama Fatheya.
(d) Aisha.
13. What did Nima like to wrap herself in when she was little?
(a) The bathroom rug.
(b) Her father's blanket
(c) Cotton balls.
(d) Her mother's scarves.
14. What does Haitham tell kids at school in an effort to defend Nima?
(a) Her father is the mayor.
(b) Her father is a cop.
(c) Her father is dead.
(d) Her father is rich.
15. What color scarf does Aisha wear to the airport?
(a) Purple.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Nima's mother's name?
2. Who is one of Nima's favorite singers?
3. Where is Nima the first time her body starts to feel like it is fading on her?
4. Who does Nima often get together with after school?
5. Where does Nima keep some of her favorite photos?
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