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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 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 turns away but sneaks peeks.
(b) She starts to cry.
(c) She closes her eyes.
(d) She watches.

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

3. What class does Mr. Schmidt teach?
(a) English.
(b) History.
(c) Geography.
(d) Math.

4. What does Deja decide her father needs above all else?
(a) To feel better and get a job.
(b) To see a psychiatrist.
(c) To stop feeling sorry for himself.
(d) To get some rest.

5. What is ekmek, the food that is served at Sabeen's house during Deja's visit?
(a) Tea.
(b) Bread.
(c) Wine.
(d) Rice.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Deja meets Ben the morning of their visit to the 9/11 Memorial, what object does she see that convinces her that Ben is prepared?

2. What is Deja's proposed solution for answering her question about how a plane could make a whole tower fall down?

3. Reading her own essay helps Deja discover that doing so helps her to see what more clearly?

4. What is NOT a language Sabeen's mother speaks?

5. How many people died building the Twin Towers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Deja's realization that "History is alive" (101)?

2. How does being friends with Sabeen and Ben change Deja's negative outlook on her own life?

3. How does Deja process the sight of people falling and leaping out of the windows of the Twin Towers on 9/11?

4. How is the novel's motif of sound depicted within the scene when Deja watches the video of a plane hitting the first Twin Tower?

5. What is Deja's reason for feeling that she must skip school in order to visit the 9/11 Memorial on a weekday?

6. What is the significance of Deja leading her father through the streets of New York City?

7. To what location is Deja referring when she says to Ben, "I've got to go see it. I've got to walk across the bridge" (165)?

8. What does the baklava symbolize within the narrative when Deja gives a container of it to a homeless man?

9. What is demonstrated about Deja's character arc when she says, "I feel like I've passed the biggest test. Just by being me" (114)?

10. What are Deja's ideas about what each member of her family needs in order to be happy?

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