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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Small Groups - Recent Past, Far Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Deja remarks to the reader that her friend Keisha had stopped speaking to her after what event happened?
(a) After summer had arrived.
(b) After Deja's father was arrested.
(c) After Deja's family became homeless.
(d) After Keisha's family had started attending church.

2. Even though Deja is not enjoying school at the moment when the class discusses 9/11, she says that school is still better than what?
(a) Sitting on the steps outside the shelter.
(b) Home.
(c) Work.
(d) Family.

3. How many years ago does Miss Garcia say 9/11 happened?
(a) 3.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

4. What is NOT one way in which Deja describes her old school, in contrast to her new school with its classroom windows overlooking Manhattan?
(a) An abandoned building next door.
(b) Windows overlooking a cesspool.
(c) Metal fencing.
(d) Weeds.

5. How does Deja feel about math word problems?
(a) She hates them.
(b) They make her feel dumb.
(c) They make her feel smart.
(d) She loves them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ben say he plans to do when he is old enough to drive?

2. What sort of home does Ben's school project depict?

3. Deja remarks that her father is very scary when he gets mad. What is NOT an impetus Deja mentions as being capable of sparking her father's anger?

4. From what song is the epigraph of the novel Towers Falling taken?

5. What tactic does Deja say her mother uses whenever Deja wants to talk about Pop?

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