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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 sculpture is at the top of the fountain that Taslima and Razia see when they enter Central Park?
(a) Sappho.
(b) An Angel.
(c) An Eagle.
(d) Aphrodite.

2. Why does Razia have to ring the doorbell when she walks home with Taibah Aunty and finds that the door is locked?
(a) Because Razia left her key at school.
(b) Because Razia's key is not working.
(c) Because Taibah Aunty does not want to come inside unannounced
(d) Because Razia does not have a key to her house.

3. Who hosts the Khatum for the Aunty?
(a) It is hosted by Hafiz Saab's wife at the masjid.
(b) Razia's mom.
(c) Bahar's mom.
(d) Taslima's mom.

4. What song does Angela play for Razia the first time that Razia comes over to Angela's and her mom's apartment?
(a) Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard.
(b) The Boxer.
(c) Mrs. Robinson.
(d) Bridge Over Troubled Water.

5. What is Angela's teddy's bear's name?
(a) Fiona.
(b) Cake.
(c) Shamrock.
(d) Huggy Bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Angela reading the next day when Razia sees her in the park?

2. What is amazing to Razia about the West Village?

3. What news does the Aunty get from her sister on the phone?

4. What book does Angela want to get for her and Razia at Strand?

5. What is Bahar's baby son's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Razia initially reluctant once she changes into her fashionable outfit? How does she feel once she walks around bit?

2. What does Taibah Aunty try to say to Razia about how girls were in Pakistan when Taibah Aunty was a girl?

3. How does Razia feel about Taslima's reception of the news that Razia kissed Angela?

4. What does Razia feel that Angela does not understand about Razia's parents not allowing Razia to date anyone outside of her Pakistani-Muslim community?

5. From the clues that you can gather from the book, what is Roza?

6. What statue are Razia and Angela drawn to at the end of their visit to the Met? What is the famous rumor about the woman whose statue they are drawn to?

7. Why does The Aunty move in with Razia's family?

8. What is Ben, the Strand bookstore clerk able to guess about Razia and Angela?

9. At the end of the chapter titled Stuyvesant what does Razia begin to imagine? What starts to disappear for her?

10. What question does Razia try to ask of Ben but cannot fully express?

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