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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. What does Deja do during the lunch period she spends in Miss Garcia's classroom?
(a) She does her math homework.
(b) She washes Miss Garcia's whiteboards.
(c) She writes her missing essay.
(d) She tells Miss Garcia about her father's situation.

2. What sort of job does Deja's mother have?
(a) She is a stewardess.
(b) She is a waitress.
(c) She is a social worker.
(d) She is a cook.

3. Whenever Deja asks about the contents of Pop's briefcase, what is Ma's reply?
(a) She tells Deja that inside the briefcase are items from Pop's rock collection.
(b) She tells Deja that inside the briefcase are items from Pop's last good job.
(c) She tells Deja that inside the briefcase are items from the safe deposit box the family used to rent.
(d) She tells Deja that inside the briefcase are items from Ma's inheritance.

4. Miss Garcia tells Deja that if Deja misses one more homework assignment, she will have to take what action?
(a) She will have to assign Deja a detention period.
(b) She will have to meet with Deja's parents.
(c) She will have to meet with Deja's social worker.
(d) She will have to dock points from Deja's grade.

5. Deja remarks that her new school is like her old "school, except it's" (27) what?
(a) Bigger.
(b) Easier.
(c) Smaller.
(d) Harder.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason does Deja think Sabeen and Ben have become her friends?

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

3. How does Deja learn the name of her new teacher, even though the teacher forgets to introduce herself to the class?

4. When Ben's mother Dora suggests that Sabeen call her Dora, for what reason does Sabeen decline?

5. Miss Garcia asks Deja to read the definition of what term during the class discussion about community?

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