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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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

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

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) Clothes without patches.
(c) Video games.
(d) Nickelodeon.

4. What part of her name does Deja leave out when introducing herself to the class?
(a) Her alias.
(b) Her last name.
(c) Her middle name.
(d) Her nickname.

5. What does Ben say he plans to do when he is old enough to drive?
(a) Go back to Arizona.
(b) Participate in low rider competitions.
(c) Drive race cars professionally.
(d) Go back to Nevada.

6. Who at her new school reminds Deja of her younger brother Ray?
(a) Jacqueline.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Sabeen.
(d) Ben.

7. Miss Garcia asks Deja to read the definition of what term during the class discussion about community?
(a) Socioeconomic status.
(b) Group.
(c) Social unit.
(d) Family.

8. Ben says that when one person dies, it ripples outward "like" (70) what?
(a) Rays of light.
(b) Sounds.
(c) Waves.
(d) Disease.

9. When Miss Garcia calls the students to the window, points to the Manhattan skyline, and asks them to find what is different between the current skyline and the picture of the skyline she is holding, who is the first student to notice the difference?
(a) Charles.
(b) Ben.
(c) Deja.
(d) Sabeen.

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

11. 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 the Fourth of July.
(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 September 11th.

12. What does Deja do during the lunch period she spends in Miss Garcia's classroom?
(a) She writes her missing essay.
(b) She does her math homework.
(c) She washes Miss Garcia's whiteboards.
(d) She tells Miss Garcia about her father's situation.

13. In what grade is Deja?
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Sixth.

14. At whom is Ben's mother Dora yelling on the phone when Deja arrives at Ben's house?
(a) At Ben's father.
(b) At Sabeen's father.
(c) At Ben's older brother.
(d) At Miss Garcia.

15. What is the only word Deja says Ma ever uses in relation to Pop?
(a) Proud.
(b) Scared.
(c) Sick.
(d) Anxious.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what subject does Deja dread the teacher asking her to write an essay?

2. When Miss Garcia asks Deja what she wants for her future, what is Deja's reply?

3. What is Deja's solution to needing to babysit and work on the group project at the same time?

4. What does Miss Garcia tell the class about the paper dolls brought to school by Deja?

5. What sort of job does Deja's mother have?

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