Question

i cant imagine what my class will say if i walk in with the hijab on. oh boy, does this give the walking - into - class - naked dream another dimension. except in my case, im not walking in naked. im walking in fully covered and yet im still breaking out into a sweat. come to think of it, though, its not like im not used to being the odd one out. i attended a catholic elementary school because we lived too far away from the islamic school and my parents didnt have time to travel the distance twice a day. plus, all that \love thy neighbor,\
espect your parents,\ and \cleanliness is next to godliness\ stuff was basically what i would have been taught in religious education in an islamic school anyway. so i went from kindergarten to sixth grade as the only muslim kid at st. mary immaculate, where we had to sing the lords prayer and declare salvation through jesus every morning at assembly. not that theres anything wrong with that. if youre catholic, by all means sing as loudly as you want. when i was in elementary school, different - colored socks were enough to get you teased. so when youre a non - pork - eating, eid - celebrating mossie (as in taunting nickname for muslim, not mosquito) with an unpronounceable last name and a mother who picks you up from school wearing a hijab and gucci shades and drives a car with an \islam means peace\ bumper sticker, a quiet existence is impossible. what similarities do the narrators perspectives most reveal? choose two correct answers. they both resent their religious education. they both know the effects of war firsthand. they both feel similar to everyone around them. they both experience alienation in school.

Explanation:

The passage describes the narrators' feelings of being different and out - of - place in school. One is a Muslim child in a Catholic school setting and the other has a dream of walking in class naked which implies a sense of alienation. There is no indication of resentment towards religious education or firsthand experience of war effects, and no mention of feeling similar to everyone around. The commonality is the experience of alienation in school.

Answer:

They both experience alienation in school.