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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 tactic does Deja say her mother uses whenever Deja wants to talk about Pop?
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. Deja remarks that she does not remember the last time her mother took what action?
4. How does Deja feel about math word problems?
5. While at Ben's house, Sabeen shares with Ben and Deja that she and her family do not go out on what day unless it is an emergency?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of Deja's mother's comment that, "A good woman has a clean house. Everything should be in its proper place"? (41)
2. How does Deja introduce herself to her new classmates and what does her choice reveal about her character?
3. Discuss the point of view utilized to tell the story of Towers Falling.
4. Describe what the reader learns about Deja's father, Pop, in the chapter entitled New School.
5. How does Deja discover that Ben is not close to his father?
6. What is the purpose of the author's inclusion of the Mr. Schmidt character?
7. What is the significance of Deja's name and how do you think it will relate to coming events in the narrative?
8. What object does Deja say is "the neatest thing in the whole room" (41) at the Avalon Family Shelter?
9. For what reason is Deja resistant to her teacher's assigned essay topic of summer vacation?
10. What activity will comprise Miss Garcia's students' final element of their unit about 9/11?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling and analyze the author's purpose for including each instance you discuss.
Essay Topic 2
Determine the author's message regarding the idea that secrecy is dangerous within a family unit.
Essay Topic 3
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the book.
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