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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sabeen's father do for work?
(a) He is a lawyer.
(b) He is a dancer.
(c) He works construction.
(d) He is a dentist.

2. Who is NOT someone Deja names as someone she wishes she could talk to after watching the attacks of 9/11 on video?
(a) Her social worker.
(b) Ma.
(c) A teacher.
(d) Pop.

3. In what type of house does Sabeen live?
(a) A large brick house.
(b) A small ranch house.
(c) An Eichler house.
(d) A Victorian house.

4. What does Deja do when Ben tells Deja and Sabeen to close their eyes before the plane hits the South Tower in the video?
(a) She watches.
(b) She turns away but sneaks peeks.
(c) She calls her father.
(d) She closes her eyes.

5. What do Sabeen and Deja do after dinner while the adults talk?
(a) Play the piano.
(b) Play Monopoly.
(c) Play hopscotch.
(d) Play checkers.

6. Ben shares with Deja that 9/11 had been the impetus for his dad's enrollment in what branch of the military?
(a) The Air Force.
(b) The Army.
(c) The Marines.
(d) The Navy.

7. What does Sabeen do when Ben tells Deja and Sabeen to close their eyes before the plane hits the South Tower in the video?
(a) She watches.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She turns away but sneaks peeks.
(d) She closes her eyes.

8. How many people died building the Twin Towers?
(a) 60.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 16.

9. What does Deja decide her mother needs above all else?
(a) To get some rest.
(b) To feel better and get a job.
(c) To see a marriage counselor.
(d) To take a vacation.

10. How many times does Deja say she has seen Pop touch his briefcase?
(a) Twice.
(b) Three times.
(c) Too many to count.
(d) Once.

11. In what season does Pop always seem to get extra gloomy?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

12. Deja compares Mr. Schmidt to which Star Wars character?
(a) Yoda.
(b) R2D2.
(c) Darth Vader.
(d) Jabba the Hut.

13. How many minutes after the North Tower was hit by a plane was the South Tower hit by a second plane?
(a) 50.
(b) 33.
(c) 11.
(d) 17.

14. Deja thinks that maybe seeing where the Twin Towers had stood will help her family do what?
(a) Get out of Avalon.
(b) Love each other again.
(c) Understand each other better.
(d) Be kinder.

15. What action does Sabeen suggest that her group take first at the start of the building challenge?
(a) Have a group hug.
(b) Sketch a design.
(c) Brainstorm possible strategies aloud.
(d) Take measurements.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does Ben take that causes his mother to scold him as Deja is leaving Ben's house?

2. In what years were the Twin Towers finished?

3. Deja muses that if she let them, lots of people would make her feel like a what?

4. What candy does Sabeen bring from home and offer to Deja and Ben?

5. What novel does Ben bring up in relation to the candy Sabeen brings from home?

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