Ask Me No Questions

"Ask Me No Questions" by Marina Budhos is the story of a family of illegal immigrants from

• India

• Toronto

• Bangladeshi

• New York

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Abba is detained by the INS for

• violating his visa

• driving without a license

• speeding at the border

• escaping from INS custody

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Nadira and Aisha attend school in which city?

• Boston

• Queens New York

• Toronto

• Montreal

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Who said this quote: "Year after year we went on, not thinking about Abba's expired passport in the dresser drawer, or how the heat and the phone bills were in a second cousin's name. You forget. You forget you don't really exist here, that this really isn't your home. One day, we said, we'd get the paperwork right. In the meantime we kept going. It happens. All the time"

• Ma

• Aisha

• Nadira

• Ali Uncle

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Who said this: "It hurts, this leaving. We weren't supposed to do this. We were supposed to stay and then one day roll the word in our mouths: home"

• Abba

• Nadira

• Ma

• Aisha

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When driving to the border, Aisha cries as they pass through Boston because she has always ...

• wanted to live there

• wanted to attend Harvard University

• wanted to go back to Bangladesh

• wanted to attend University of Toronto

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The main theme of "Ask Me No Questions" is the

• struggles of getting into university

• how to get along with your sister

• trials that illegal immigrants face, especially following the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.

• life in Bangladesh

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Abba's detainment is prolonged because ...

• Ma, Aisha and Nadira came to visit him

• tried to escape from the detention centre

• he did not follow the rules in the detention centre

• he is suspected of being involved with an illegal organization.

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Who is Mr. Friedlander from Ask Me No Questions?

• He is Aisha's friend at school

• He is Taslima's boyfriend

• He is a counselor at Flushing High School

• He works at the detention centre

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Who is Taslima in Ask Me No Questions?

• Ma's sister

• Uncle's daughter

• Aisha's friend from school

• Abba's other daughter

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