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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Suitcase - Subway.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Stretching their lips too wide in a smile.
(d) Using many hand gestures.

2. What novel does Ben bring up in relation to the candy Sabeen brings from home?
(a) The Velveteen Rabbit.
(b) The Borrowers.
(c) Of Mice and Men.
(d) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

3. Deja muses that if she let them, lots of people would make her feel like a what?
(a) A piece of gum on the bottom of a shoe.
(b) A melted ice cream cone.
(c) A squashed bug.
(d) A shard of glass.

4. 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) Clothes without patches.
(c) Nickelodeon.
(d) Ice cream.

5. What food does Deja eat at Sabeen's that she thoroughly enjoys and had never eaten before then?
(a) Hummus.
(b) Red peppers.
(c) Kalamata olives.
(d) Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Deja take Leda and Ray after her own outburst toward her father Pop?

2. What does Sabeen's name mean?

3. Sabeen says that her father always tells her that "Sharing ideas is" (147) what?

4. When Miss Garcia first asks Deja which communities Deja belongs to, Deja gives only two answers initially. What are those two answers?

5. What is NOT one way in which Deja describes her old school, in contrast to her new school with its classroom windows overlooking Manhattan?

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