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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Meatpacking district is now gentrified.
(b) In the photo, the Christmas Tree is in Rockefeller Center.
(c) The Statue of Liberty has moved.
(d) The Twin Towers are gone.

2. For what two reasons does Deja decide she would not tell Ray about 9/11?
(a) He is particularly prone to nightmares and the topic is too scary.
(b) He is too little and the topic is too scary.
(c) He is too much of a dreamer and the topic is too real.
(d) He is too sensitive and the topic is too real.

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

4. What is NOT an element of Avalon Family Residence mentioned by Deja in her description?
(a) Two families to a room.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Peeling paint.
(d) Five people to a room.

5. When Deja returns from Ben's house, she blurts out that she had not known about what historical event?
(a) She says she had not known what the Freedom Tower symbolized.
(b) She says she had not known that planes hit the two towers on 9/11.
(c) She says that she had not known that a plane had hit the Pentagon on 9/11.
(d) She says that she had not known that a fourth plane had been bound for Washington, D.C. on 9/11.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When describing what homeless shelter gangs are all about, what is NOT an element listed by Deja?

3. Deja muses at one point that "History is alive. Especially if there's" (100) what?

4. How many of the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia?

5. Who suggests to the teacher that she introduce the new students?

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