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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 plans for the future.
(b) Her summer vacation.
(c) Her parents.
(d) Her hero.

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

3. From what source does Deja get her lunch on the first day at her new school?
(a) She gets free lunch from the cafeteria.
(b) Ben and Sabeen share their lunch with her.
(c) She brings a sack lunch from the shelter.
(d) She uses the coins her mother had given her to buy some chips from the vending machine.

4. What is a niquab?
(a) A garment for modesty.
(b) A clerical collar.
(c) A type of fish.
(d) A type of prayer robe.

5. When Miss Garcia calls the students to the window, points to the Manhattan skyline, and asks them to find what is different between the current skyline and the picture of the skyline she is holding, who is the first student to notice the difference?
(a) Deja.
(b) Sabeen.
(c) Charles.
(d) Ben.

Short Answer Questions

1. Deja remarks that her new school is like her old "school, except it's" (27) what?

2. When Pete says that Muslims had been responsible for 9/11, what is Sabeen's reply?

3. What does Miss Garcia tell the class about the paper dolls brought to school by Deja?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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