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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 dentist.
(b) He is a lawyer.
(c) He works construction.
(d) He is a dancer.

2. How many planes in all were hijacked on 9/11?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

4. What is Deja's reply to Sabeen's father's query about whether she prays or not?
(a) Never.
(b) Sometimes.
(c) Only when she is really in trouble.
(d) Only when her mother takes her to church.

5. How many of the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were from the United Arab Emirates?
(a) 3.
(b) 13.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

6. Deja muses at one point that "History is alive. Especially if there's" (100) what?
(a) Visual evidence.
(b) A movie.
(c) Video.
(d) Proof.

7. Deja laments the fact that if she goes to a new school as Pop wishes, her circle of friends will do what?
(a) Melt.
(b) Break.
(c) Stretch.
(d) Wilt.

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

9. What is NOT an item Deja finds within Pop's briefcase when she sneaks back to the room to look inside?
(a) An employee ID in her father's name.
(b) Work clothes.
(c) A cracked mirror.
(d) A melted walkie-talkie.

10. At what time do Ben and Deja agree to meet on the day they skip school to visit the 9/11 Memorial?
(a) 8 a.m.
(b) 7 a.m.
(c) 9 a.m.
(d) 10 a.m.

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

12. When Pop reaches Miss Garcia's classroom, he fixates on what sight?
(a) The view across the river.
(b) The American flag.
(c) Miss Garcia's face.
(d) Sabeen's mother.

13. When Sabeen's whole family is waiting for her grandmother's reaction to Deja, what kind of girl does Sabeen's grandmother tell Deja that she is?
(a) Rude.
(b) Polite.
(c) Smart.
(d) Lovely.

14. What reason does Ben give for saying that Sabeen should ask her parents before she reads the book he is recommending?
(a) Because it is a violent book.
(b) Because it contains adult themes.
(c) Because it is a Christian book.
(d) Because it is an anti-Muslim book.

15. What is the name of Deja's school that she attends with Ben and Sabeen?
(a) Staten Island Collective Elementary.
(b) Queens Collective Elementary.
(c) Manhattan Collective Elementary.
(d) Brooklyn Collective Elementary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were from Lebanon?

2. Mr. Schmidt tells the class that since 2001, America has been engaged in a war on what?

3. What event led to America's entry into World War II?

4. What does Sabeen's name mean?

5. Deja thinks that maybe seeing where the Twin Towers had stood will help her family do what?

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