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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) Be kinder.
(b) Get out of Avalon.
(c) Love each other again.
(d) Understand each other better.

2. What event led to America's entry into World War II?
(a) Emperor Hirohito's abdication.
(b) Emperor Hirohito's suicide.
(c) The attack on Pearl Harbor.
(d) Hitler's invasion of Poland.

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

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 closes her eyes.
(c) She turns away but sneaks peeks.
(d) She calls her father.

5. Reading her own essay helps Deja discover that doing so helps her to see what more clearly?
(a) The truth.
(b) The world.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Sabeen's father tells Deja that she would be a good Muslim, she replies that she just wants to be what?

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

4. In what years were the Twin Towers finished?

5. How many times does Deja say she has seen Pop touch his briefcase?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Deja keep from her father the fact that she has watched a video of a plane flying into one of the Twin Towers on 9/11?

2. How does Sabeen's father comfort Deja during her visit to their home?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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