Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. In Chapter 1, Ahmedi describes the sense of exhilaration she feels while riding The Gondola. Which of the following is not one of the reasons she cites for feeling this thrill?

A) The feeling of weightlessness

B) The quick speed of the ride

C) The people around her, cheering and screaming

D) The way the ride changes direction suddenly

2. When she first moves to the US, Ahmedi is plagued by nightmares of what two deceased relatives urging her to come be with them, as she describes in Chapter 1?

A) Her mother and father

B) Her father and grandfather

C) Her grandfather and grandmother

D) Her mother and grandmother

3. In Ahmedi’s description of her ancestral village of Ghazni, it becomes clear that, over the last thousand years, global culture has transformed. Which of the following best describes the nature of that transformation?

A) Afghanistan is now viewed as a culturally “backwards” nation where refugees are from, whereas it was once known as a sophisticated epicenter of world civilization.

B) Afghanistan is now viewed as economically rigid with only a few acceptable types of industry, whereas it once was a hub for numerous types of industry.