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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 action does Sabeen suggest that her group take first at the start of the building challenge?
(a) Have a group hug.
(b) Brainstorm possible strategies aloud.
(c) Sketch a design.
(d) Take measurements.

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

3. What does Deja decide Ray needs above all else?
(a) To take a vacation.
(b) To feel better and get a job.
(c) To get to kindergarten.
(d) To get some rest.

4. What action does Ben take that causes his mother to scold him as Deja is leaving Ben's house?
(a) Ben tells Sabeen that she should not be so bossy.
(b) Ben shows Deja a video of the Twin Towers being hit by a plane.
(c) Ben pushes Sabeen on her way down the stairs.
(d) Ben forgets to wave as Deja's father drives away.

5. How many of the terrorists responsible for 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 15.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Deja muses that if she let them, lots of people would make her feel like a what?

3. When Pop reaches Miss Garcia's classroom, he fixates on what sight?

4. Ben shares with Deja that 9/11 had been the impetus for his dad's enrollment in what branch of the military?

5. In her "Being American" (127) essay, Deja states that "sometimes American history isn't" (127) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. During Deja's father's visit to her school, what does he discover about Deja's teacher Miss Garcia?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. How does Deja feel about her father's mysterious illness?

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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