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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. What does Nima hear one girl say to her friend at school when they bump into Nima accidentally?
(a) She thinks Nima is a worker at the school.
(b) She thinks Nima has a disability.
(c) She thinks Nima can not read.
(d) She does not think Nima speaks English.

2. What does Nima's own name mean?
(a) Courage.
(b) Grace.
(c) Finality.
(d) Beauty.

3. Who does Nima often get together with after school?
(a) Haitham.
(b) Henry.
(c) Yasmeen.
(d) Fatima.

4. How do Nima and her mother travel to the hospital in Part II?
(a) Train.
(b) Car.
(c) Plane.
(d) Bus.

5. Who is in the hospital in the end of Part II?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Khaltu Hala.
(c) Mama Fatheya.
(d) Haitham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aisha say when Nima asks why she still wears her headscarf?

2. What does Nima's best friend have to do at school in Part I?

3. What does Mama Fatheya tell Nima and Haitham not to do after sundown?

4. What color scarf does Aisha wear to the airport?

5. What does Nima's best friend sometimes refer to her as?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Nima and Aisha go to the hospital in "The Bus"?

2. In "Baba," what does Aisha have all over the apartment that Nima often looks at?

3. What happens in "The Airport" that Nima always remembers as hurting her mother deeply?

4. In "Haitham" (pg. 43), what does Mama Fatheya tell Nima and Haitham about loud singing after sundown?

5. In "The Photograph," who does Nima always admire and long for?

6. In "Haitham" (55), what begins the fight between Haitham and Nima?

7. Why does Nima think her own name is somewhat ironic?

8. In "Yasmeen," (pgs. 12 - 13), how does Nima imagine the fictional Yasmeen?

9. How do Haitham and Nima know each other?

10. In "Halloween," what does Haitham tell the kids making fun of Nima?

(see the answer keys)

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