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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason that Deja does not get free lunches at school?
(a) She likes the bagged lunches provided by the family shelter.
(b) She does not like the food in the cafeteria.
(c) Her parents do not want her to suffer the stigma associated with free lunches.
(d) She does not want to stand out from the other students.

2. For what reason does Deja think Sabeen and Ben have become her friends?
(a) Because they are unpopular.
(b) Because they feel sorry for her.
(c) Because they are poor.
(d) For no reason.

3. When Ben's mother Dora suggests that Sabeen call her Dora, for what reason does Sabeen decline?
(a) She says that she likes to be more formal.
(b) She says that it would make her feel uncomfortable.
(c) She says that she does not think she could bring herself to do it.
(d) She says her mother would not approve.

4. What does Miss Garcia tell the class about the paper dolls brought to school by Deja?
(a) She says that the paper dolls had perfectly expressed the meaning of home, since home is about people, not buildings.
(b) She says that the paper dolls are an act of plagiarism since Ray had created them.
(c) She says that the paper dolls could act as the class's Random Act of Kindness Project.
(d) She says that the paper dolls show how diversity is important.

5. When Miss Garcia first asks Deja which communities Deja belongs to, Deja gives only two answers initially. What are those two answers?
(a) School and Brooklyn.
(b) Friends and school.
(c) Family and school.
(d) Family and New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comment does Deja make to her father that causes Deja's mother to demand that Deja apologize?

2. Whenever Deja asks about the contents of Pop's briefcase, what is Ma's reply?

3. How does Deja feel about math word problems?

4. What sort of home does Ben's school project depict?

5. From what country does Deja say her mother hails, prompting Sabeen's excitement about adding to the cultural map in the school hallway?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of Miss Garcia's comment to Deja that if she comes without her homework one more time, Miss Garcia will have to meet with her parents?

2. For what reason is Deja resistant to her teacher's assigned essay topic of summer vacation?

3. Describe what the reader learns about Deja's father, Pop, in the chapter entitled New School.

4. In what way does Rhodes reveal Deja's family's level of poverty within her first visit to the cafeteria?

5. How does Deja introduce herself to her new classmates and what does her choice reveal about her character?

6. Explain the circumstances of Deja's exclamation, "He's always ruining my life!" (75).

7. What does Sabeen's comment "Home is divine. Blessed by Allah" (50) demonstrate about her character?

8. What activity will comprise Miss Garcia's students' final element of their unit about 9/11?

9. What does Deja's reluctance to find Ben's mother sincere show about her character?

10. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Deja is mature beyond her years.

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