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Chapters 1-6
Reading Check
1. Who is Madame Burlaud?
2. Where does Yasmina work?
3. What is Yasmina called at her work?
4. How many siblings does Doria have?
5. According to Doria, who are the guilty parties in the story?
6. In Chapter 6, what does Doria do when she is bored?
Multiple Choice
1. Doria introduces Monsieur Loiseau with the following tagline: “He's one of those people who think illiteracy is like AIDS. It only exists in Africa” (Chapter 2). Which figurative language is used in this quote, and what is its effect?
A) She uses personification to convey the gravity of the AIDS epidemic.
B) She uses a simile to emphasize her principal’s stupidity.
C) She uses a metaphor to stress the sorrow of Yasmina’s illiteracy.
D) She uses onomatopoeia to provide humor about the misunderstanding.
2. Which of the following emotions best describes Yasmina’s first impression of France?
A) relief
B) awe
C) shame
D) perplexity
3. Which of the following sentences best describes how Doria feels about writing a civics essay on the topic of respect?
A) She feels this is hypocritical since she does not believe the teachers respect the students and their work.
B) She feels this is embarrassing since her writing skills are very poor.
C) She feels this is overwhelming since she works in the evening with Yasmina.
D) She feels this is exciting since she loves to write analytical papers.
4. What does the distribution of Doria’s hypothetical lottery winnings imply about her character?
A) that she is a selfish and self-absorbed human being
B) that she is materialistic and concerned with trends
C) that she is charitable and practical
D) that she desires glamorous items
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Chapter 1 opens with a vignette from a day in the life of Doria. Based on this chapter alone, what can we surmise about Doria’s situation?
2. Based on the information from Chapter 2, what is Ramadan, and what are some of the challenges that Doria and Yasmina experience in this time period?
3. In Chapter 3, which book did Doria finish? What are the parallels between this story’s plot and her life?
4. Who is Hamoudi? What are some of the similarities between Doria and him?
Chapters 7-12
Reading Check
1. What does zohra mean?
2. What does Madame Burlaud recommend that Doria attend?
3. What is the name of the most popular TV show in the neighborhood?
4. What does inshallah mean?
5. What is different about this year’s Livry-Gargan summer fair compared to previous years?
6. What does Doria collect?
7. Who is Lila?
Multiple Choice
1. What is Doria’s primary concern for her hypothetical future wedding?
A) that she will not meet the man of her dreams
B) that she cannot have a wedding because she has no father to walk her down the aisle
C) that she will be on welfare and therefore unable to afford the wedding
D) that no one will attend because she does not have many friends
2. Which of the following sentences best describes Doria’s response to her teachers’ feedback in her classes?
A) She is proud since she is being praised for her excellent performances.
B) She is nervous since Yasmina will read the negative feedback.
C) She is distraught since she wants to attend university to study physics.
D) She is apathetic since she does not care about school or her teachers.
3. Which of the following words best describes Yasmina’s reaction to Doria’s new job?
A) dismay
B) joy
C) relief
D) aggression
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Describe Aunt Zohra and her relation to Doria. How does Doria view this woman?
2. At the end of Chapter 9, Doria mentions her impressions on two aspects that are stereotypically related to becoming and being a woman. What are these impressions? Who does she speak to about this?
3. Describe Doria’s encounter with Hamoudi at the Livry-Gargan summer fair. How does Doria react?
Chapters 13-18
Reading Check
1. What does Madame “DuThingy” suggest Yasmina do?
2. What happens to Youssef at the end of Chapter 14?
3. What did Doria draw in the atlas?
4. Who gives Doria a ride home from school?
5. What is the state of Yasmina’s job at the beginning of Chapter 17?
6. Why does Aunt Zohra call Yasmina?
Multiple Choice
1. In Chapter 14, Doria looks out the window and remarks, “Outside, it was gray like the color of our building's concrete and it was drizzling in very fine drops, as if God were spitting on all of us.” Which of the following combination of literary devices is used in this quote?
A) allegory, simile
B) metaphor, simile
C) simile, simile
D) metaphor, metaphor
2. In Doria’s description of Yasmina’s enrollment in the literacy course, she says, “They're going to teach her to read and write in the language of my country, this country” (Chapter 17). What does this quote imply about how Doria feels about her relationship to her country?
A) She rejects France as her country.
B) She does not consider her nationality to be affiliated with a language.
C) She is proud that Yasmina will learn how to read and write Arabic.
D) She considers France to be her country.
3. Based on her experience buying sanitary pads in Chapter 18, which of the following best summarizes Doria's feelings about her period?
A) She is excited because she is becoming a woman.
B) She is embarrassed about menstrual-related purchases.
C) She does not care if other people know.
D) She is concerned Yasmina will punish her if she finds out that Doria began puberty.
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. In Chapter 13, both Doria’s school and Yasmina’s workplace are experiencing a similar occurrence. What is this occurrence, and how are both characters dealing with it?
2. Describe Doria’s dream in Chapter 15. What does Madame Burlaud compare this to?
3. Who is Aziz? What are Doria’s overall impressions of him?
Chapters 19-24
Reading Check
1. What is the result of Youssef’s court decision?
2. According to Doria, what is the problem with clairvoyants?
3. In Chapter 20, what event does Doria mention will happen in two weeks?
4. What does Doria say she will do when she turns 18?
5. What does the letter say that Doria and Yasmina receive in Chapter 22?
6. Where will Doria attend in the fall?
7. Whose wedding will happen in the neighborhood soon?
8. Who is Cyborg Services?
Multiple Choice
1. In describing the division between housing estates that she lives in, Doria says, “Massive wire fencing that stinks of rust it's so old and a stone wall that runs the whole length of the divide. Worse than the Maginot Line or the Berlin Wall” (Chapter 19). Which of the following literary devices is used in this quote?
A) allegory
B) alliteration
C) allusion
D) anaphora
2. Based on Doria’s conversation with Hamoudi in Chapter 20, which of the following best summarizes Hamoudi’s opinion on parenting styles and the adolescent crisis?
A) Parenting styles are very similar between French and Algerian cultures.
B) Adolescent crises are a concoction of Western parents because they do not know how to raise their children properly.
C) North African parents should learn how to treat their children similar to how French families do.
D) The French parenting style of corporal punishment is the best way to raise children.
3. Which of the following reasons best describes why Doria believes she does not have photos of herself from when she was younger?
A) because her family was too poor to afford a camera
B) because Yasmina worked too much to care
C) because Yasmina and her father were always arguing
D) because she was not born a boy
4. Which of the following words best describes Doria’s tone in Chapter 23?
A) resentment
B) shame
C) sorrow
D) optimism
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Who is Samra? What are her current circumstances, and how do Doria and the general public view the situation?
2. In Chapter 21, Doria has her first kiss with Nabil. Is it how she imagines it? Why or why not?
3. What is ironic about the freedoms that Hamoudi has compared with Doria? What is the one thing that Hamoudi is not allowed to do?
4. In Chapter 24, Doria discusses many changes in the main characters' lives. What are these changes?
Chapters 25-30
Reading Check
1. What is unusual about Doria’s session with Madame Burlaud in Chapter 25?
2. What is a new habit we learn about Doria’s father?
3. Where do Doria and Yasmina go together in Chapter 27?
4. What is the new rumor surrounding Samra?
5. What is Yasmina’s new job?
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following anecdotes does Doria use to convey the sentiment that “life is really full of disappointments”? (Chapter 26)
A) Hamoudi’s new relationship with another Moroccan girl
B) her father’s return from Algeria
C) a TV show she watches about dating
D) a conversation she overhears on the bus about a famous actor being gay
2. Which of the following literary terms describes Doria’s reaction to Sarah’s news in Chapter 29?
A) paradoxical
B) ironic
C) hyperbolic
D) persuasive
3. Which of the following emotions best describes Yasmina’s reaction to her new work?
A) distressed
B) guilty
C) radiant
D) apathetic
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. What does Doria believe is “really too cool” in Chapter 27? What example does she provide?
2. How does Doria compare her father to Nabil’s father?
3. Describe the very last scene of Chapter 30 with Cyborg Services. What is the response?
Chapters 31-36
Reading Check
1. How does Hamoudi feel about Lila?
2. What activity does Yasmina take up again?
3. Where is Doria going at the beginning of Chapter 33?
4. Who does Yasmina kiffe?
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following emotions best describes Doria's feelings about Nabil at the end of summer?
A) disappointed that he is acting nonchalantly
B) embarrassed that he asked her to be his girlfriend
C) excited that he kissed her again
D) apathetic to his presence altogether
2. In describing Rachida, Doria states, “She's the one who brings us the latest news and when she's got an especially juicy piece of gossip, she's as proud of it as if it were her firstborn son” (Chapter 32). Which literary term is used here, and what is the effect?
A) She uses a metaphor to highlight the importance of procreation.
B) She uses a simile to emphasize the pride that a son can bring to a family.
C) She uses an anecdote to reference Rachida’s past with her miscarriages.
D) She uses personification to bring human qualities to the conversation.
3. What is the overall tone of the vignette about the girl in Chapter 35?
A) distressing, because it involves sexual assault
B) shameful, because it centers on the marriage of a multicultural couple
C) inspiring, because the girl is able to escape her home and pursue her dreams
D) disheartening, because she is sent back to Tunisia by her parents
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. Based on Chapters 33 and 34, describe Doria’s first day at school along with the events surrounding the preparation.
2. Describe the changes in Hamoudi’s life compared to before. How does Doria react?
3. What significant event happens to Doria in Chapter 36? How do her family and friends respond?
Chapters 37-41
Reading Check
1. What happens in May?
2. Why does Madame Burlaud say “good luck” to Doria at their session in Chapter 38?
3. What profession does Doria reference pursuing at the end of Chapter 41?
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following does Doria find to be a satisfying birthday present?
A) a pair of handknitted socks made by Yasmina
B) a kiss with Nabil
C) the successful end to the strike at Yasmina’s former workplace
D) the chance to see her father again
2. Which of the following best describes how Hamoudi reacts to Doria’s news in Chapter 41?
A) jealous
B) anger
C) uncertainty
D) elation
3. Which of the following phrases summarizes the final tone of the text?
A) fear of the unknown
B) hope for change
C) monotony and repetition
D) forewarning of failure
Short-Answer Response
Answer each of the following questions in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. In Chapter 39, Doria has an unexpected visitor. Who is this person? How does this encounter go? What is the conclusion?
2. What happens to Cyborg Services? Who comes to Doria and Yasmina’s home, and what is suggested by this person?
Quizzes – Answer Key
Chapters 1-6
Reading Check
1. the narrator’s therapist (Chapter 1)
2. cleaning a motel room (Chapter 2)
3. “Fatma” (Chapter 2)
4. None; she is an only child. (Chapter 3)
5. “[her] dad and fate” (Chapter 4)
6. ride the metro (Chapter 6)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. The narrator (later: Doria) is a girl whose family is from Morocco. Her dad left their family 6 months ago because the narrator’s mother could not have any more children, and he wanted a son. The narrator is now attending therapy sessions that have been recommended by her school (Chapter 1).
2. Ramadan is the religious fasting period that Yasmina and Doria observe. They both experience challenges in their practice: Doria’s principal is not aware of this fasting period, and Yasmina must work during the time when she is allowed to break the fast, meaning she must hide some food in her clothes (Chapter 2).
3. The Sand Child is about a girl who is forced to live as a boy because her family wanted a son. This is similar to Doria’s situation, since her father placed great importance on having a son in his family; however, unlike in the story, he chose to leave and marry another woman (Chapter 3).
4. Hamoudi is her 28-year-old neighbor who hangs out in the neighborhood towers and smokes hashish; however, he loves poetry and had dreams of attending university. She says she likes him because they both “don’t like [their] reality.”
Chapters 7-12
Reading Check
1. “luck” in Arabic (Chapter 7)
2. a skiing trip (Chapter 8)
3. The Young and the Restless (Chapter 8)
4. “god willing” in Arabic (Chapter 9)
5. They stay until the fair closes. (Chapter 10)
6. “witch-doctor propaganda” (Chapter 11)
7. the woman who needs a babysitter (Chapter 12)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Aunt Zohra is a long-time family friend of Yasmina, and the two women used to sew together. She has bright green eyes and laughs a lot, and only sees her husband 6 months out of the year because he married another woman in Algeria. Doria views her with respect and considers her a strong woman (Chapter 7).
2. Doria is unsure if she wants children and has just received her first menstruation cycle. She speaks about it with Madame Burlaud, who asks her many questions; however, she did not have much to say about her lack of interest in having children (Chapter 9).
3. She sees Hamoudi with a girl named Karine. Doria is upset about seeing him with a girl and calls her the wrong name on purpose (Chapter 10).
Chapters 13-18
Reading Check
1. enroll in a free literary course (Chapter 14)
2. He was arrested. (Chapter 14)
3. an escape route (Chapter 15)
4. Hamoudi (Chapter 16)
5. She quit her job at the motel. (Chapter 17)
6. because Youssef’s case is going to court soon (Chapter 18)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Both the motel Yasmina works at and Doria’s school are on a strike. For Yasmina, this means working longer hours and picking up everyone else’s shifts. For Doria, this means that school is difficult, with most of the teachers not teaching their classes (Chapter 13).
2. Doria is able to take flight and continue to fly until she hits a wall and wakes up. Her therapist compares this to the “Atlas Episode,” where she drew an “escape route” in an atlas (Chapter 15).
3. Aziz is the neighborhood grocer who owns Sidi Mohamed Market. Although Doria illustrates him with rather undesirable qualities, she likes him overall and remarks that if he married Yasmina, they could all have a comfortable life together (Chapter 16).
Chapters 19-24
Reading Check
1. He will be sent to prison for one year. (Chapter 19)
2. They only say what people want to hear. (Chapter 19)
3. Youssef’s dad will return. (Chapter 20)
4. vote (Chapter 21)
5. that her father had a son with the woman he left Yasmina for (Chapter 22)
6. hairdressing school (Chapter 23)
7. Aziz (Chapter 23)
8. the temporary social worker while their usual one is on maternity leave (Chapter 24)
Multiple Choice
Short-Answer Response
1. Samra is a girl in Doria’s building whose movement was regularly controlled by her male relatives. She recently escaped and has been missing for three weeks. Although Doria sympathizes with the girl, the general public is “condemning” her (Chapter 20).
2. Doria does not enjoy the kiss with Nabil, especially because it was not how she imagined her first kiss to be. She imagined the first kiss to be with a man like from an advertisement (relates to the theme of Pop Culture). She hasn’t told anyone about the kiss (Chapter 21).
3. Doria believes that although men have all the freedom, they are not allowed to cry. This is ironic because of the limitations of women’s freedoms in society. Doria believes it is important for everyone to cry (Chapter 22).
4. Yasmina is slowly learning how to read and write as well as do things independently, Aziz has gotten married (and does not invite Doria or Yasmina), Aunt Zohra tells her husband about what happened with Youssef while he was gone, and Hamoudi gets a new job (Chapter 24).
Chapters 25-30
Reading Check
1. She smells like alcohol and she is wearing garters (Chapter 25).
2. He is an alcoholic (Chapter 25).
3. the Eiffel Tower (Chapter 27)
4. that she ran away for a boy (Chapter 28)
5. a cafeteria lady at an elementary school (Chapter 30)
Short Answer
1. She believes this about helping people who need it. The example she gives is donating an organ or blood, which she would do not to make herself feel better but because other people really need it (Chapter 27).
2. She considers Nabil’s father to be nice and cultured, since his dad does not hit him and they spend time together as a family. Doria says her father hit her, but she would not cry so as not to appear weak (Chapter 29).
3. Cyborg Services’s car is stolen during her visit with Doria and Yasmina. She runs back to their apartment, only to learn that their phone does not work. Her response goes straight to her work, which is that this was not in their file (Chapter 30).
Chapters 31-36
Reading Check
1. He is in love with her (Chapter 31).
2. knitting (Chapter 32)
3. the mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë (Chapter 35)
Multiple Choice
Short Answer
1. She will have her first day at the hairdressing school, which she is attending because she did poorly at her high school the year before and was not allowed to return. Yasmina is very excited for her first day, and helps her get ready. At the school, Doria feels overwhelmed, confused, and out of place with her surroundings. She returns home crying (Chapters 33 and 34).
2. After falling in love and dating Lila, Hamoudi is now working a steady job and is making marriage plans with her. Doria thinks about how she misses the old Hamoudi, but does not tell him (Chapter 35).
3. No one remembers her 16th birthday this year. She believes that if she were a boy, perhaps things would be different: her father would still be there and she would have received more gifts and opportunities in her life (Chapter 36).
Chapters 37-41
Reading Check
1. Youssef is released from prison (Chapter 37).
2. because Madame Burlaud has finished her sessions (Chapter 38)
3. a politician (Chapter 41)
Multiple Choice
Short Answer
1. Nabil is the unexpected visitor. He comes to her house to talk with her and to apologize for the unprompted kiss before. He stays for a long time and asks her out to see a movie. She realizes that she really likes him (Chapter 39).
2. Cyborg Services is no longer their social worker, as their previous one is back from maternity leave. She notices a change in their household, and says she will try to get more money from social services so Doria and Yasmina can take a holiday (Chapter 40).
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