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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. 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 assign Deja a detention period.
(c) She will have to meet with Deja's social worker.
(d) She will have to dock points from Deja's grade.

2. What question does Deja ask Sabeen that causes Sabeen to start crying at Ben's house?
(a) She asks Sabeen why her family does not leave the house on Rosh Hashanah.
(b) She asks Sabeen why her family does not leave the house on September 11th.
(c) She asks Sabeen why her family does not leave the house on Memorial Day..
(d) She asks Sabeen why her family does not leave the house on the Fourth of July.

3. From what song is the epigraph of the novel Towers Falling taken?
(a) Yankee Doodle.
(b) America the Beautiful.
(c) This Land is Your Land.
(d) My Country 'tis of Thee.

4. What adjective does Ben use when he sees that Deja has shown up to his house with Ray and Leda in tow?
(a) Bad.
(b) Weird.
(c) Nice.
(d) Cool.

5. What is the difference between Miss Garcia's photo of the Manhattan skyline and the real skyline the children are viewing out the window?
(a) The Statue of Liberty has moved.
(b) In the photo, the Christmas Tree is in Rockefeller Center.
(c) The Twin Towers are gone.
(d) The Meatpacking district is now gentrified.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who at her new school reminds Deja of her younger brother Ray?

3. Who is the first student to befriend Deja at her new school?

4. How does Deja feel about math word problems?

5. What is NOT an element of the house depicted within Sabeen's school project?

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