View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Deja's proposed solution for answering her question about how a plane could make a whole tower fall down?
(a) She wants to hear the audio tapes of the victims' voices.
(b) She wants to write a letter to the president.
(c) She wants to watch a video of the attacks.
(d) She wants to visit the 9/11 Memorial.

2. How does Mr. Schmidt define the term "ideologue"?
(a) A narrow-minded person incapable of independent thought or critical thinking.
(b) An inspirational mentor.
(c) A dreamer.
(d) A conversation between two people.

3. What is NOT among the sounds Deja imagines emanating from the Twin Towers as she watches them burn in the video?
(a) Screaming.
(b) Slicing through concrete, steel, and glass.
(c) Crackles of lightning.
(d) Crying.

4. Mr. Schmidt tells the class that since 2001, America has been engaged in a war on what?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Welfare.
(c) Terror.
(d) Drugs.

5. 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) Smart.
(b) Rude.
(c) Polite.
(d) Lovely.

Short Answer Questions

1. When terrorists tried to bring down the Twin Towers prior to 9/11, what did they use in their attempt?

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

3. In what season does Pop always seem to get extra gloomy?

4. How many minutes after the North Tower was hit by a plane was the South Tower hit by a second plane?

5. Sabeen says that her father always tells her that "Sharing ideas is" (147) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

5. How is the theme of guilt brought up within the dinner at Sabeen's house?

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

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. What are Sabeen's experiences with racism and Islamophobia?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,187 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample