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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Taslima's nickname for Stuyvesant?
2. What does Angela's mom get Angela for Christmas?
3. Why does Razia have to ring the doorbell when she walks home with Taibah Aunty and finds that the door is locked?
4. What does Razia's mother do with Razia's clothes from Goodwill?
5. What does Taibah Aunty see at the Queensboro Plaza train station?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the ultimatum that Taibah Aunty gives to Razia?
2. 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?
3. Who is Angela?
4. What sad memory does Razia have about the ferry that is conected to her and Saima's family?
5. Why is Razia initially reluctant once she changes into her fashionable outfit? How does she feel once she walks around bit?
6. What is Ben, the Strand bookstore clerk able to guess about Razia and Angela?
7. How does Razia feel about Taslima's reception of the news that Razia kissed Angela?
8. What is Razia's thought about race and ethnicity as she and Angela move through the galleries of paintings and sculptures? Whose face is she seeing in all the art?
9. From the clues that you can gather from the book, what is Roza?
10. What question does Razia ask of the Ouija board and what is the response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Razia's mother's perspective about community and children? Why is it so important to Razia's mother that Razia have the same values and traditions and religion as Razia's mother? Why do you think Razia's mother is so unwilling to allow Razia to incorporate any secular ideas or behaviors into Razia's life?
Essay Topic 2
What are the main themes of the story? How does the author continue to return to the main themes through the telling of the story? Are there parts of the story that seem particularly poignant in connection to the theme? if so, which sections seem particularly poignant and why?
Essay Topic 3
Is Roses, in the Mouth of A Lion a story that has a message or multiple messages? What is one message that this story is offering? What elements of the story guide you to what you think the message or messages are?
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