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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. From what location does Pop retrieve the item of clothing he wears to walk Deja to school?

2. After Ben, Sabeen, and Deja watch the video of the 9/11 attacks, they walk back to class moving like what?

3. In what type of house does Sabeen live?

4. What is NOT an element of the place Deja says her family lives and sleeps?

5. Sabeen says that since 9/11, her Uncle Ahmet always gets held at the airport when he tries to fly home to what country?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the baklava symbolize within the narrative when Deja gives a container of it to a homeless man?

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

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

6. What is the significance of Deja's realization that "History is alive" (101)?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the topic of knowledge treated within Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling and how does its treatment relate to the book's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Jewell Parker Rhodes's novel Towers Falling from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the author's focus on the theme of transformation in the novel Towers Falling. What message is the author sending about change and about one other theme of your choice?

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