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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. About what subject does Deja dread the teacher asking her to write an essay?
(a) Her summer vacation.
(b) Her parents.
(c) Her plans for the future.
(d) Her hero.

2. Who is always tasked with the responsibility of getting Leda and Ray ready for day care?
(a) Deja.
(b) Miss Garcia.
(c) Pop.
(d) Ma.

3. Deja says that both Ben's mother and Ma do the same thing when they are "pretending nothing's wrong" (79). What is that action?
(a) Using many hand gestures.
(b) Looking at the floor.
(c) Stretching their lips too wide in a smile.
(d) Talking quickly.

4. What is the reason that Deja does not get free lunches at school?
(a) She does not like the food in the cafeteria.
(b) She does not want to stand out from the other students.
(c) She likes the bagged lunches provided by the family shelter.
(d) Her parents do not want her to suffer the stigma associated with free lunches.

5. What does Deja say the shelter smells like?
(a) Urine.
(b) Feet.
(c) Soured food.
(d) Dirty clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a niquab?

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

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

4. On the day when Deja is supposed to work on the school project with Sabeen and Ben, what happens to modify her plans?

5. At whom is Ben's mother Dora yelling on the phone when Deja arrives at Ben's house?

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