A Border Passage True or False

1. "'I am not an Arab!' I said, suddenly furious myself. 'I am Egyptian! And anyway we don't speak like this!' And I banged my book shut" (243). With whom is Ahmed fighting here? -> Her mother
2. "I was fifteen. Like many girls that age, I was sure of one thing: I did not want to be like my mother. I was sure that I wasn't like her and would never grow up to be like her. I didn't want to think we were alike in anything, let alone in our deepest hearts' desires..." (74). What is the desire that Ahmed shares with her mother in this instance? -> Her desire to become a writer
3. : "I found myself living, just as I had in Alexandria, in a place where women, presiding over the young in their charge, were the authorities" (181). What is this place? -> Abu Dhabi
4. "Huge demonstrations held on Balfour Day in 1945 and again in 1947 spilled over into violent attacks on the Jews and now on any other group deemed 'foreign'" (260). What does Balfour Day commemorate? -> The expulsion of Jews from Egypt
5. "[The Nasser government was] refusing to grant me the means to leave Egypt not because I'd had any significant political activity myself but because I was my father's daughter, and this was a way of further harassing my father" (20). Why does the government want to harass Ahmed's father? -> He opposed Nasser's pet engineering project

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