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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the reason that Deja does not get free lunches at school?
2. When Miss Garcia calls the students to the window, points to the Manhattan skyline, and asks them to find what is different between the current skyline and the picture of the skyline she is holding, who is the first student to notice the difference?
3. What sort of home does Ben's school project depict?
4. Deja says that both Ben's mother and Ma do the same thing when they are "pretending nothing's wrong" (79). What is that action?
5. Deja remarks that she does not remember the last time her mother took what action?
Short Essay Questions
1. What object does Deja say is "the neatest thing in the whole room" (41) at the Avalon Family Shelter?
2. For what reason does Deja's sympathy for Ben surprise her?
3. Describe what the reader learns about Deja's father, Pop, in the chapter entitled New School.
4. Describe the author's depiction of Deja's youth through the use of language.
5. For what reason is Deja resistant to her teacher's assigned essay topic of summer vacation?
6. What activity will comprise Miss Garcia's students' final element of their unit about 9/11?
7. What does Deja's reluctance to find Ben's mother sincere show about her character?
8. What effect does Miss Garcia's guidance have on Deja?
9. Describe and analyze the author's use of chapter titles within the novel Towers Falling.
10. What is the significance of Deja's name and how do you think it will relate to coming events in the narrative?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling.
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author set a particular mood for each of the three scenes.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding patriotism in Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling and what themes does the author employ in order to send these messages to the reader?
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