Going Where I'm Coming From

Naomi Shihab Nye's story, "Going Where I'm Coming From" is what type of genre?

• Historical fiction
• Non-fiction
• Memoir
• Science fiction

Nye has stated that her time spent in Jerusalem as a teenager...

• Changed her view of the universe just a little.
• Changed her view of the universe forever.
• Did not change her view of the universe.
• Ruined her life forever.

How many parts is Old Jerusalem, the Holy City, broken into?

• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

What conflict did Nye encounter at the school in Ramallah?

• She was not allowed to talk to boys.
• She had to travel really far to go to this school.
• The teachers rapped on students' hands if they answered incorrectly.
• She did not have any friends.

Why did Nye believe that the school rule forbidding girls from talking to boys was outrageous?

• Classes consisted of mixed populations.
• She liked none of the other girls at school.
• Schools should not restrict students' actions.
• She considered teh boys at the school her friends.

What did Nye and her brother do when they felt sad?

• Let out their neighbor's chickens to run around.
• Dreamed about all the places they would go.
• Thought about white, layered birthday cakes.
• Practiced speaking a different language.

What did it mean when Nye's classmates at the Armenian school called her Shihabian?

• She was becoming more like an Armenian.
• They thought she was part Armenian.
• They accepted her as one of them.
• She deserved a beautiful, musical name.

Nye got upset during her daily Arabic lesson because

• she had trouble learning foreign languages.
• other students in the class ignored her.
• the teacher mistreated the kindergarteners.
• she learned only useless Arabic phrases.

What point did Nye's Armenian friends make about violence between groups of people, whether Armenian or American?

• The world notices problems only when people resort to violence.
• The massacre of groups of people overshadows one-on-one violence such as murder.
• Such violence is widespread, unavoidable, and eventually forgotten.
• People who try to stop the fighting become victims themselves.

At what point did Nye feel like she had, "left my old life entirely"?

• When she would see the rolling hills of Jerusalem; the ancient blended with the modern.
• When Nye was invited to friends' homes to share lunch.
• When the teachers rapped the backs of her hands when she answered incorrectly.
• When she and her brother would walk down the ancient roads and play games.