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

2. What is NOT an element of the place Deja says her family lives and sleeps?
(a) Dark shadows.
(b) Hidden feelings.
(c) A tiny, dim square.
(d) A cavernous warehouse.

3. What novel does Ben bring up in relation to the candy Sabeen brings from home?
(a) Of Mice and Men.
(b) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
(c) The Velveteen Rabbit.
(d) The Borrowers.

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

5. What is NOT a language Sabeen's mother speaks?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Turkish.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ekmek, the food that is served at Sabeen's house during Deja's visit?

2. How many planes in all were hijacked on 9/11?

3. What food does Deja eat at Sabeen's that she thoroughly enjoys and had never eaten before then?

4. 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?

5. What do Sabeen and Deja do after dinner while the adults talk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism of the Avalon Family Shelter's pancakes?

2. How does Ben feel about his new home of New York City in relation to his previous home of Arizona?

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

4. How is Deja's open-minded nature depicted within her visit to Sabeen's house?

5. What is the symbolism of mourning doves within the narrative?

6. What major realization does Deja have at the end of the day when Pop visits her school?

7. 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)?

8. 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?

9. What makes Ben a good choice of partner when Deja needs someone to go with her to the 9/11 Memorial?

10. What is the connection between Pop's briefcase and Deja's realization that "Pop survived 9/11" (146)?

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