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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 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) Video games.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Clothes without patches.
(d) Nickelodeon.

2. 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) Windows overlooking a cesspool.
(b) Weeds.
(c) Metal fencing.
(d) An abandoned building next door.

3. From what country does Sabeen say she is from originally?
(a) Turkey.
(b) Somalia.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Afghanistan.

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

5. On the day when Deja is supposed to work on the school project with Sabeen and Ben, what happens to modify her plans?
(a) Ma needs to take Pop to the clinic, so she needs Deja to watch Leda and Ray.
(b) Deja decides that she wants to work on her own part of the project before working with the group.
(c) Pop needs to take Ma to work, so he needs Deja to watch Leda and Ray.
(d) Pop needs to take Leda to the clinic, so he needs Deja to watch Ray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What scent does Deja say lingers around all of the students at her new school?

2. While at Ben's house, Sabeen shares with Ben and Deja that she and her family do not go out on what day unless it is an emergency?

3. In what grade is Deja?

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

5. What project does Deja share with the class when her other project has been destroyed?

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