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

2. 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) Looking at the floor.
(b) Talking quickly.
(c) Using many hand gestures.
(d) Stretching their lips too wide in a smile.

3. What is NOT an item that Deja names within her description of the things she always has to tell Leda and Ray the family cannot afford?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Video games.
(c) Clothes without patches.
(d) Nickelodeon.

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

5. What does Miss Garcia tell the class about the paper dolls brought to school by Deja?
(a) She says that the paper dolls show how diversity is important.
(b) She says that the paper dolls could act as the class's Random Act of Kindness Project.
(c) She says that the paper dolls are an act of plagiarism since Ray had created them.
(d) She says that the paper dolls had perfectly expressed the meaning of home, since home is about people, not buildings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a niquab?

2. What does Deja do during the lunch period she spends in Miss Garcia's classroom?

3. In what grade is Deja?

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. What is the reason that Deja does not get free lunches at school?

(see the answer key)

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